Lightweight Collaborative Activity Patterns in Project Management Export

@incollection{citeulike:4634626, abstract = {People working with ad-hoc collaboration tools suffer from information overload and information scatter. Our five-month study of project managers found their work comprised of fragmented activities scattering in task, people and application. However, these loosely coupled collaborative activities were implicitly organized by hierarchical activity threads through intrusion and digression, and geared into work breakdown structure (WBS) in high level. Our investigation gives implications on making people's work manageable as well as flexible, by integrating lightweight collaborative activities with centralized processes.}, author = {Zhang, Shaoke and Zhao, Chen and Moody, Paul and Liao, Qinying and Zhang, Qiang}, citeulike-article-id = {4634626}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73331-7_51}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/151h382072n52363}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-73331-7_51}, journal = {Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics}, keywords = {activity, collaboration, cscw}, pages = {465--473}, posted-at = {2009-05-26 09:49:24}, priority = {2}, title = {Lightweight Collaborative Activity Patterns in Project Management}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73331-7_51}, year = {2007} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:4634626 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4634626 N2 - People working with ad-hoc collaboration tools suffer from information overload and information scatter. Our five-month study of project managers found their work comprised of fragmented activities scattering in task, people and application. However, these loosely coupled collaborative activities were implicitly organized by hierarchical activity threads through intrusion and digression, and geared into work breakdown structure (WBS) in high level. Our investigation gives implications on making people’s work manageable as well as flexible, by integrating lightweight collaborative activities with centralized processes. JF - Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics EP - 473 TI - Lightweight Collaborative Activity Patterns in Project Management SP - 465 KW - activity KW - collaboration KW - cscw AU - Zhang, Shaoke AU - Zhao, Chen AU - Moody, Paul AU - Liao, Qinying AU - Zhang, Qiang PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73331-7_51 ER -