As a moderator of Facebook's "Project Management 2.0" group, I put a simple list of questions related to project management trends. Those questions might be an interesting addition to the Conference's Project Management 2.0 panel, so I decided to post them here. Feel free to:

• Post more questions,
• Answer one of those questions,
• Address them during the panel,
• Bring more questions to the panelists,
• Join the Facebook group to share your opinion after the conference.

Here they go:

Who plays the role of the main barriers preventing people from implementing Project Management 2.0? How do you deal with the possible barriers along the way?

During the 2008 Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, Andrew McAffee moderated a panel of early adopters. When he asked the panel about the major impediments to introducing Enterprise 2.0 technologies in their companies, he offered three variants: users, technology, and managers. In their initial responses, all panelists identified users, not bad managers or inadequate technologies, as the biggest barriers to adoption of Enterprise 2.0. This might sound surprising, as Enterprise 2.0 evangelists usually say that the new technologies penetrate companies from the bottom up. People start blogging at home, and then realize it’s a good way to collaborate on a project together. So why are users indentified as the main barrier? Are they really the main problem? What obstacles are there in your way when you implement project management 2.0? How are you dealing with them?

What are your favorite E2.0 tools? Blogs? Wikis? Collaboration tools? Mind-mapping?

In my article for Cutter IT Journal, I mention 3 major types of tools that can be used for Project management 2.0. I wrote about blogs, wikis, and collaboration planning tools. Are there any other tools that are able to bring the power of collective intelligence and emergence into your project management practices? Do you use social networks for Project Management 2.0? Do you use mind-mapping tools?

Who will drive the cultural evolution in project management?

Jim Benson made a very interesting comment on one of my previous posts. This comment made me think of the cultural change that is inevitable with the development of Project Management 2.0 technologies. Speaking about Enterprise 2.0, Jim noted that the culture needs to evolve to support the changes involved in moving from a hierarchical/command style management system to a distributed/collaborative system. The traditional project management culture definitely has to evolve to fully accept the opportunities brought by the new-generation project management software. Who is driving this evolution? Executives? PMOs? Managers? Teams? How we can catalyze this process?

Can Project Management 2.0 be applied in any industry?

I heard this question many times as I took part in conferences and seminars. The point is, there’s a variety of Project Management 2.0 tools, and there’s a variety of ways to use them. Each industry might adopt Project Management 2.0 to facilitate collaboration, simplify routine jobs, and boost productivity in its own individual way, making the new technologies fit the existing industry processes. What do you think?

Project Management 2.0 for small and big projects.

What differences do you see in applying Project Management 2.0 practices in small vs. big projects and in small vs. big organizations?

What questions do you get asked?

I’ve recently read Andrew McAffee’s post about questions that we might get asked. People are still uncertain about the positive effects of Enterprise 2.0, and as a consequence, Project Management 2.0 tools. For example, for blogs there are questions like:

• What if employees use  their internal blogs to post hate speech, post pornography, or harass a co-worker?
• What if blogs are used to denigrate the company, air dirty laundry, or talk about how misguided its leadership and strategy are?
• What if nasty arguments break out in a discussion forum and the whole thing descends into name-calling and flame wars?

What are the concerns that you face in implementing Project Management 2.0, and how do you deal with them?

And finally:

Social Project Management or Project Management 2.0? Which term do you like better, and why?

Here’s a post on that topic.