PROJECT MANAGEMENT 2.0: SOME OF THE CHALLENGES TO A MORE COLLABORATIVE AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT STYLE
Alex de Souza Santana, Cristina Dai Prá Martens · CONTECSI - International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management · 2016
The traditional project management approach directs all responsibility to a central point, the project manager, it stimulates a centralized management style and a top-down decision making flow. But, some changes in the project management tools are stimulating changes in management style, as they are promoting emphasis on collaboration and increasing team’s production. Such tools are the so called web 2.0 technologies, like blogs, wikis and others social media applications. The main challenges to overcome the limits of traditional project management into the future of the new management style required to meet the current dynamic environment needs where outlined in a conference held in 2008 in California. Given that, the aim of this theoretical study is to identify what has been academically discussed, about this field of study, since then. The strategy used to achieve the objectives of this study was to conduct a literature review through hermeneutic approach. We found that the road to project management 2.0 is far from being well paved, because much is being discussed about technologies development, and so now, there is a need to explore more effectively the human aspects, procedural aspects and the intersection between these both project management dimensions. This study was limited by the number of used data bases. Additional challenges are suggested in this paper and it contributes literally with scholars and practitioners interested in this new wave of the project management.