Articles Review

Articles Review

Articles Review

Ariticle 1

The reason of this item is to suggest a possible “meta” approach of the task administration field—the unit of analysis—respectful of the various perspectives in reality, while supplying an integrative ontological and epistemological framework. In alignment to do so, I first propose what could be seen as being the state of the field and its major constituting “school of thoughts.” Then I open the argument on what could be the ontological and epistemological perspectives endowing us to better take into account the diversity we face in contemplating the richness of the field. Based on these expansion, I suggest to address task management as a complex integrative information area, which finally will lead us to address “modeling—developing exact convention—to do ingeniously” as acting and discovering mode in the administration of projects. New movements in task administration are pushing task teams to search down associates well outside their normal systems, to tackle troubles came across all through project rollout. This raises the topic of initiating collaboration with somebody unknown—that is, harnessing feeble ties to tap into assets well outside the solace zone. Our enquiries into polar expedition projects has directed us to evolve the notion of a possibly cooperative feeble bind, converging Granovetter's approach with a synthesis about collaboration differentiating identity-sense and utilitarian mechanisms. We resolve that a feeble bind can start a cooperation only if it encompasses one of these two sources of collaboration.

In May 2007 R “Ray” Wang of Forrester published a report called Introducing Project-Based Solutions and a few months ago a page about Project Based Solutions (PBS) appeared on Wikipedia written by Tony Humphries from IFS. I've met Tony, and he has a lot of experience and knowledge. Having aroused my curiosity and also noting a small posse of ex-Artemis colleagues had joined the PBS Group in Linked In , I took a quick peek at PBS and wanted to share some thoughts.

At the end of this blog, I've listed the small number of resources I've looked at so far, but must advise that I've hardly scraped the surface with Ray's blog. I liked the first three articles I read on it, though they had nothing to do with Project-Based Solutions.

Wikipedia articles are pretty hard to write because you need to be objective, but I imagine most people that write Wikipedia articles are passionate about the subject. Particularly when it's an idea. This article captures what it needs to and gave me a good introduction to PBS.

Project founded solutions (PBS) is an enterprise wide computer software business solution to manage and coordinate all assets, data and functions of an administration from a distributed data source; where facts and figures can be attributed to and organised through individual projects.

The bit about shared data source rang alarm bells with me at first, as well as a line a couple of sentences after about the use of a local area network. I think this is partly due to what I think a shared data resource ...