gigaom: "The first step toward successful remote working is communication. Binfire offers distributed teams a free solution for online collaboration that makes it simple to stay on track. As with most online collaboration tools, Binfire offers the ability to manage projects by adding members, creating tasks and milestones, and assigning responsibility, but there are several useful features I haven’t seen in other project management solutions so far.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Binfire: Team Collaboration and Project Management
gigaom: "The first step toward successful remote working is communication. Binfire offers distributed teams a free solution for online collaboration that makes it simple to stay on track. As with most online collaboration tools, Binfire offers the ability to manage projects by adding members, creating tasks and milestones, and assigning responsibility, but there are several useful features I haven’t seen in other project management solutions so far.
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I'm always a fan of task management and digital group collaboration. For Rube Goldberg we used a similar system to track all facets of our project, it worked moderately well. I think the key to implementing a product like this is that you need every team member to be committed to using the system if even one person doesn't get on, mark progress, etc. it can greatly decrease the benefits of using a program like this.
I guess this week is going to be collaborative project management software review week...
This one lacks the slick look of microProject, but overall it has the really important functions - subtasks, filesharing (the collaborative whiteboards and file locking are really nice too), task labels and commenting on everything (because everyone loves to have a say in the tasks). Not having GANTT and PERT charts without the paid version is a little sad, as is the lack of a calendar function (Really?! No calendar?!). This one just doesn't beat Basecamp for me.
We learned about collaboration, and communication today in PTM. the digital era has, according to all of the teachers who the school of drama provides us with, changed how the business world communicates. This new system seems to me to be problematic, because, as David told us earlier today, you cannot make people speed up in the technology which they use, they may catch up, but until they do, they are not going to be able to use the technology which you expect them to. is this collaboration technology going to be a success in the implementation phase?
This is such an exciting innovation for team work and projects! It is always very helpful to have means of communication using something as accessible as the internet that is not just email. Email, as useful as it is, can only go so far. Group websites that have multiple functions such as "following" and such proves to be an enormous help when working with large groups. Even the idea that someone who is not thoroughly involved in a project but is excited to watch its progress, perhaps because they donated to the project, is a great step towards community involvement in projects.
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