Technology: A Blessing and a Curse

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Technology: A Blessing and a Curse

Andy Jordan

March 15, 2010






I don’t want to give you the impression that I’m getting old, but when I first started managing projects I didn’t have access to virtually any of the tools that I have now. I frequently had to recruit members of my team to help carry parts of the project file to the meeting room for the status meeting because they were too heavy to carry on my own. I also had file folders that copies of the status report went into--and a sheet on the front for each recipient to initial after receiving it each week.
Thankfully the world has moved on, and project managers now have a whole host of tools and technologies at their disposal to make their life easier (not to mention to save them from lugging heavy files around the office). In all of this technology, however, we have to be careful--it can help us become more effective and efficient, but it’s not a substitute for good management.
Communication
When I first started to learn project management, the person that taught me the basics said two things to me that have stuck in my mind.



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