In late October, we arrived at the Projectplace Stockholm office in time for the weekly Monday briefing. We were two engineering students straight from university and didn’t really know what was waiting for us. All we knew was that our job was to develop Projectplace’s Android application, without really knowing what Projectplace was. Working close to the iOS team we were able to get off to a quick start, as well as the advantage of having their iPhone app to work against and receiving lots of help from more experienced coworkers. Projectplace is an agile company, which made it easy for us to get involved in the design and development processes. In our small team, just the two of us, we used a super agile approach; claim a task, implement and then push it. This is probably the main reason we could build and publish the Projectplace Documents app in...

This is a translation of an article by Anders Lotsson on Computer Sweden's web site. The original article (in Swedish) can be found here. Even though Projectplace was a success from the start customers didn't understand the underlying idea. Now social networking has helped us understand Mattias Hällström's view of projects: dialogue instead of orders. Mattias Hällström almost had to leave Projectplace. Now he's back at the company he once founded, owns 7 per cent of it and is in charge of product development. Projectplace without Mattias Hällström is like Apple without Steve Jobs, not a great idea. And he is just as enthusiastic now as in 1998 when he founded Projectplace, a web based platform for project collaboration. The company was successful straight away but not because of Mattias Hällström's ideas about project mangement. -People laughed at me in the year 2000, he remembers. Now people understand his thinking because of social networks like LinkedIn...

This post was originally posted by Christian Willoch in his blog CIO Speaker's Corner. It's been translated from Norwegian. I've got a new icon at the top of my screen, always residing there. As areminder that there is a place where I can stay on top of all the projects that I am in charge of or participate in. A click on it will bring up shortcuts to various parts of my projects. Best of all - it's all in the "cloud" - the new IT buzz-word these days. But these people have been in the cloud for many years. Welcome to projectplace.com. As I have written before, I'm trying to increase the maturity level for project methodology in my company. I have also been on the lookout for a good tool to support this. Some of the tools I've tried out include: Microsoft Excel - with templates based on Goal Based Project Management...