Wiki Use Case: Managing Team Mtg Agendas, Minutes, & Tasks Sean Murphy, SKMurphy Inc. Jan-24-08 @...

Wiki Use Case: Managing Team Mtg Agendas, Minutes, & Tasks

Sean Murphy, SKMurphy Inc.Jan-24-08 @ Lunch & Learn(People-On-The-Go )

Lunch & Learn 1/24/08 Wiki Use Case: Team Mtg Minutes, Agendas, and Tasks Sean Murphy, SKMurphy, Inc. (www.skmurphy.com)

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Wiki’s Are A “New Technology”…That Is Thirteen Years Old

Invented by Ward Cunningham in 1995 “Simplest Thing That Could Work" To Enable A Group To Edit A Website Wiki Means Quick in Hawaiian

First Site Was for Software Design Patterns http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb


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What Are Wikis

Content Management Systems Requiring Only a Web Browser to Access/Edit Typically With a Built-in WYSIWYG Editor

Server-Based Web Publishing Systems Edit in a Text Window vs. Local Application No FTP upload Obsolete FrontPage, Dreamweaver, GoLive


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What is a Wiki?

Read/Write a Website Using a Browser Built-in Revision Control – Easy Undo Basic Editing Tools: Text, Tables

Advanced: Spreadsheets, Workflow

Can be Public or Private, Most are Private Single Simple Name Space for Pages

Some Popular Wiki Platforms

Atlassian’s Confluence – install or service SocialText.com – install or service CentralDesktop.com - service PBWiki.com - service EditMe.com - service MediaWiki (Wikipedia) – open source Twiki – open source


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Current Project Management Tools

Put the Project Manager at the “Neck of the Bottle”

Focus: Schedule, Budget, Task Completion Most Projects Have a Handful of Key Dates Poor Support for

Agenda -> Minutes -> Action Items Specifications, Issues Lists, Working Consensus on Status, Next Steps


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Using Wikis to Deliver Projects

Cut Time Needed To Reach Consensus On Deliverables Against A Deadline

Source for Specs, Status, Agendas, Issues Leverage Hypertext;

Avoid E-Mail, Attachments, File Servers Now Documents Can Link to Other Documents

Keep Final Report Clean But Still Track Issues, Arguments, Decisions

Example SKMurphy Projects

Strategic Plans: 1-2 Pages Client Meetings

Sales & Negotiation Support Sales Presentations

Company & Product Positioning Data Sheets Corporate Backgrounders


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Wikis -- Advantages / Benefits

Private Searchable Shared Documents Group Edit / Social Process Browser Based: No App Compatibility Revision Control is Built In

Changes Never Lost Facilitates Project Post Mortem Analysis


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Why Central Desktop

Multi-Wiki Model Many Small Wikis Better Than One Big One Common Identity Across All Wikis Search Across All Wikis

Start a New Wiki by Cloning an Old One Good for Templates & Methodologies

Corporate vs. Outsider (Customer/Partner) Only Pay for Corporate Members


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About SKMurphy

We Use Blogs & Wikis In Our Practice We Are A Small Team Of Six We Work Face To Face & Remotely Projects Run Weeks To Months

Business Development For SW Startups Focus: Early Revenue & Early Customers


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Thanks For Your Time

Any Comments or Questions?

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http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/

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“Lunch & Learn: Using Wikis for Projects”

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