“Collaboration at the heart of project management” - PM 2.0 Definition: Wikipedia

Projects are no longer created, managed, tracked and controlled by project managers. Thats the thing of the past. Today, everyday work that has a business outcome is treated like a ‘project’. e.g. launching your website, releasing a new version of a software, gathering input from your clients etc. Business people (even business owners) that have a stake in the project are the new ‘project managers’. The control has shifted from top-down to bottom-up. At the heart of this shift is the need to collaborate effectively, easily and quickly. 

Going back in time, project management 1.0 was all about planning, getting schedules right and setting up the project with nice looking charts and graphs. Today, with dispersed teams, always-online gadgets and sophisticated online technology, Project Management 2.0 is about people, conversations, relationships, sharing, execution and collaboration. Less planning and getting more work done.

Project management 2.0 gives you complete visiblity to whats going on within your projects. Real-time changes and updates to your projects can be easily tracked online. This helps your team to take action early or change course quickly if things are not going right. 

At DeskAway, we are striving to create an online service that is not only simple and powerful to use but also facilitates social collaboration. DeskAway already includes comment threads, RSS and instant email notifications. In the coming months we plan to integrate user profiles, twitter-like social message updates, email integration so that your conversation via email can be logged easily into DeskAway. 

At the end of the day software should be fun and easy to use. Just like your social network, right?