The thing that caught me about this idea of Tension is often between those looking for formal process vs. But there is a direct connection to the tension topic in the final paragraph that talks about a Mike Gotta definition of process and practice. Process is "how work should be done." I wrote about eating or fishing last week, and about the same time Bill Ives posted Is there Tension in Enterprise Collaboration (referencing Bruce Lewin's detailed thoughts in The Tension in Collaboration ). those that want it loose and human.

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Looking at the Tension in the Collaboration Process by Bill Ives September 1, 2008 at 10:09 am · Filed under Enterprise 2.0 Bruce Lewin writes the blog, Four Groups and he recently posted a long piece on The Tension in Collaboration . Does collaboration benefit from a more formal process? He started with these four questions: Should we be putting people first, before technology, in our efforts to collaborate? Can collaboration be encouraged in a replicable and systematic manner (as much as anything concerning people can be repeatable

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Here are my App Gap posts for August. EchoSign Provides E-Signing to Take Out Last Analog Vestige in Business Processes In addition to the Fast Forward blog (see side bar for links), I am writing in another Corante blog, the App Gap, sponsored by QuickBase, The posts began toward the end of January 2008. In this case, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in.

In the process, e-mail use declined. “I Facilitating Distributed Meetings ... Rachel has pointers about facilitation of distributed meetings, from an Agile perspective. " Gary is a project manager who is being asked to use an Agile approach and at the same time work with a team with members dispersed between different countries.

Plenty of CIOs also are wary of the data integration, security, and productivity issues raised by the introduction of social networking technology in the enterprise, especially when tied to a process as critical as developing a new product or completing a project. s feature set has once again been significantly extended with the addition of labeling functionality, integrated Wiki, custom Spacelets, and rule based document processing and workflow. " More ...Tags: Ad Hoc Collaboration ... John comments on the need for a post-email way of creating ad hoc collaboration

Quote from: untenured on August 18, 2006, 10:42:02 AM Tags: PhD process life Ph Like my house right now this blog is loved, but neglected space: finishing my dissertation and being a happy mom doesn’t leave much energy for anything else. I’m almost there, starting to look forward to “after the PhD” life, like moving to an unknown country…

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