Comments for Project network as a social network

Comment from Valdis K on 2004-07-28

2004-07-29T04:29:56Z

Here is a project team -- color coded by which part of the organization they are from. The links show the project communication paths during the last month.

We see some interesting network patterns -- ones that were causing project delays. For more details see the web page...
-- http://www.orgnet.com/email.html

Comment from Jack Vinson on 2004-07-28

2004-07-29T04:50:51Z

"Ask and ye shall receive." Thanks so much, Valdis. This is exactly what I was thinking of - I should have known. I'd love to see an animation of how this network changed over the course of the monthly snapshots. Based on the article, I am guessing you saw much more activity through the hubs and more inter-departmental activity once managment intervened.

It would be great if you had evidence of using this as a predictor as well as a diagnostic tool.

Comment from Valdis K on 2004-07-29

2004-07-29T13:42:35Z

As time went on we saw less flowing through the origianl hubs and yes there were more interdepartmental connections. Yet the origianl hubs and the clustering did not totally disappear. What was interesting was how some connections [and therefore patterns of connections] changed as the project progressed through various phases.

Everyone wants to predict the future... other than expecting some patterns and trends to continue into the near future... predicting long term future is really an impossibility.

And maybe networks do not change that much... Several years ago Karen Stephenson shared some research on how executive networks remained pretty consistent even as a large company went through a formal re-organization. The formal networks changed, the informal ties did not.

Comment from Dennis Smith on 2004-08-05

2004-08-05T19:50:37Z

To the question "Has anyone mapped a social network against a project network?" - yes, that is what I do and it is called Team/Project Acculitics. An overview is at www.companysmith.com/tpa.htm

Comment from loans on 2005-01-02

2005-01-02T09:49:08Z

You can also check out the sites dedicated to- Tons of interesdting stuff!!!