New Tools, Same Problems on IT Projects

Collaborative applications can vastly improve project management. So why don't they?

members-only post Oct 05, 2009 2-min read

Collaborative tools such as Microsoft’s SharePoint hold enormous promise on all sorts of IT projects. Wikis and their ilk contain amazing features. Going back a few years to the pre-SharePoint era, I can remember using different intranet sites to do the following:

Facilitate document sharing and updating
Improve communication among team members
Rid the organization of its dependency on e-mail

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