Comments on: Disruptive Technologies Can Be Useful http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2002/12/09/79/ The magazine for the project age Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:32:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Mary Poppendieck http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2002/12/09/79/#comment-425 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2002/12/09/79/#comment-425 I would bet that Sean Gallagher did not read 'Innovators Dilemma' because he doesn't seem to have a grasp of what a disruptive technology is. Collaboration tools do not quailfy just because they are like Napster. I used a collaboration tool with an overseas development group. It did little to bridge the distance and was so much harder to use than e-mail that it eventually fell into disuse. This ment that we had no real version control for any documents which were not source code, and no good way to track issues. Quite honestly, the tool was more a hinderance than a help. The article seems to claim that electronic communication is better than face-to-face communication. I expect not. I would bet that Sean Gallagher did not read ‘Innovators Dilemma’ because he doesn’t seem to have a grasp of what a disruptive technology is. Collaboration tools do not quailfy just because they are like Napster.

I used a collaboration tool with an overseas development group. It did little to bridge the distance and was so much harder to use than e-mail that it eventually fell into disuse. This ment that we had no real version control for any documents which were not source code, and no good way to track issues. Quite honestly, the tool was more a hinderance than a help.

The article seems to claim that electronic communication is better than face-to-face communication. I expect not.

]]> by: Paulo Napolitano http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2002/12/09/79/#comment-426 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2002/12/09/79/#comment-426 The advanege to use Internet is that all the members of the business chain working in a project can share at the same time one information. We know that informations can change in the line time causing big troubles. Here in Brasil we are using webcams in our sites and when we are intalling elevators in our buildings we can ask the factory, that is 1000km far from our site, how to solve a problem and have the answer at the same time because we are together on site, but virtually. The problem using internet is that we really must know what we are doing because the client is there 24h/day and he can kill us only clicking the mouse if he suspects that we are making mistakes The advanege to use Internet is that all the members of the business chain working in a project can share at the same time one information. We know that informations can change in the line time causing big troubles. Here in Brasil we are using webcams in our sites and when we are intalling elevators in our buildings we can ask the factory, that is 1000km far from our site, how to solve a problem and have the answer at the same time because we are together on site, but virtually.
The problem using internet is that we really must know what we are doing because the client is there 24h/day and he can kill us only clicking the mouse if he suspects that we are making mistakes

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