Social Media Survey Needs Your Input

Posted on | January 8, 2010 | Author: | DanS | No Comments

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Take the 2010 Project Management Benchmark Survey today. And for another way to shape project management views, click on the image to take Elizabeth Harrin's Social Media for Project Managers Survey.

Cheers to colleague Lindsay Scott for pointing this out to me earlier…

Surveys have graced the posts here at the Camel for many weeks now, as we are all too aware of how important it is for us to have your input on the direction of project management. No one seems to mind, though: the six minutes it takes to provide your views on project management issues helps to shape the 2010 Project Management Benchmark Report to an indelibly accurate standard that project managers continue to depend on throughout the calendar year. Five years of increased academic citation, participation and evolution with the PM climate have allowed us to maintain that standard.

Speaking of standard bearers, I thought it would be a good time to talk about the survey Elizabeth Harrin is doing. The founder and editor of one of the best project management blogs on the web (A Girl’s Guide to Project Management) and author of Project Management in the Real World, Harrin makes it her goal as a recognised PM expert and writer to spread the importance of staying OTOBOS – On Time, On Budget, On Scope. As she says in her explanation of OTOBOS:

If you can manage a project and be OTOBOS, you are doing something right!

As influential as her blog is, her first stab as an author was a masterstroke, as Real World proved to blow away the Camel crowd as a must have. “Health Informatics Now” said of Real World:

“[The author] tries to focus on the use of standards within project management not for their own sake but for the betterment of the project and its delivery.”

Now, Harrin is back at it, and she wants your input. A short nine-question survey for her new, untitled work on social media for project managers seeks the input of project managers. Having taken the survey myself, I can say (albeit without the benefit of impartiality) that only the Project Management Benchmark Survey is its equal as a relevant project management survey. The questions delve into your thoughts about how social media is shaping project management in the new decade:

the business benefits of social media;
the universality/department comparmentalisation of social media user within your company;
types of media used, and;
if/how 2.0 tools impact your ability to manage projects.

Lindsay and Elizabeth exchanged emails earlier this week, and this is how Elizabeth described the goals of her survey:

“My survey is for a book on social media for project managers. It is mainly about using social media and enterprise collaboration tools for managing project teams, but there is a short section at the end about using it for professional career progression purposes i.e. LinkedIn groups, networking with other PMs on Twitter, using blogs to learn from and get PM news etc.”

We can’t recommend strongly enough your investing a mere five minutes to take the Social Media for Project Managers Survey and help shape the views of project management professionals in the workplace today. It’s not like we haven’t done it before anyway, I grant you. It is just as worthy.

As such, kudos to Elizabeth for this worthy endeavour!