A Collaborative Project Management Architecture

The Project Management (PM) paradigm is rapidly shifting due to business globalization and information technology (IT) advances that support distributed and virtual project teams. Traditional PM focuses on a single project at a single location [16] and is more concerned with project inputs and outputs than with project process [51]. Management in the past implied projects were conducted with a top down view [13]. The PM paradigm has begun to change due to the increasing number of distributed projects involving project collaborators from different locations, organizations, and cultures [27]. Current and future PM will be more concerned with tracking project work processes and efficient and effective sharing of information and knowledge, among project contributors. High-levels of collaboration will become essential for distributed project success. Task interdependence and member distribution across time, space, and technology will make high degrees of collaboration necessary to accompli...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: HICSS
• Authors: Fang Chen, Nicholas C. Romano Jr., Jay F. Nunamaker, Robert O. Briggs
• Keywords: Biometrics, Collaborative Pm, HICSS 2003, Projects, System Sciences, Traditional Pm