Hubs to Meshes – Person to Person Project Management
One of the problems Milestone Planner sets out to address is the traditional bottleneck that happens in project management: Someone ‘owns’ the plan, and every-time there is an update, that person has to be contacted, update the plan and push a new version out. Or, as is more often the case, the owner of the plan is left chasing people for updates. The result is people living with a permanently out of date plan, and chasing each over via phone and email. That’s no way to run a business. Time for one of Jim’s cartoons…

Adding a Person to a Milestone Planner Project
People have been asking about how to add other people to a project in Milestone Planner, so here is a quick walkthough. Head over to Milestone Planner and login (if you don’t have a login, then do sign up for a trial account now). Select a project, so you are in the main Milestone Planner time-line view:

Milestone Planner on Web Worker Daily
We have some updated videos showing how to put Milestone Planner to good use on their way , but in the meantime, Web Worker Daily did a great job of explaining what it can do, and how to use it to manage projects. In their words: It’s a bit like an online equivalent of the magnetic planning boards you see in some offices, and it’s nice drag-and-drop interface makes it really easy to use. It will handle multiple projects, and you can export your plans to send them to colleagues or use them in presentations or other documents.

Getting Agile – Agilecamp
The Agile methodology goes beyond it’s application in programming. We certainly aim to use it that way at SocialOptic, but there’s something for all businesses to learn from what’s been happening in the programming world. Jim and I recently headed into London to join a long list of folks at Agilecamp, an unconference at the end of the two day Agile Business Conference. You can hear organiser Tim Difford’s

Welcome!
There always has to be a first one, and this is it! We are starting something new at SocialOptic, and it’s not just this blog! We hope you will be part of the journey as we work together to change the way that we work together. For now, if you are a Twitter user, you can follow us there: @SocialOptic or do subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed. We are building social software for social business, supporting digital conversations that get more things done. We’ll share more as it happens, right here. -Benjamin, Jim and