I like this post. Project management is a very exciting and challenging industry. In my case, I’m using Clutterpad. It’s a very cool project management tool. Everybody to check it out. I love it!

this list if very similar to my expectations – although I’m not a project manager

Difficult to say that, seeing that we don’t see all the private waves. I myself have been using it for different aspects of PM. But on the premise that there is not a giant tidal wave of folks running to Google Wave for PM, I would agree with you.

That said, I am getting to ready to make another presentation for Oct to the PMI org on Google Wave + PM. I think round 2, I trust will be using a much more improved and functional version of Google Wave.

Do not forget we are still only in Preview for Google Wave, not even a Beta (or for that matter, an Alpha) yet!

Suspend judgement for now, it is still way to early in the development of this product.

A few months after the hype, I don’t think Google wave is currently being used for project management. It was nice, maybe too nice, for the project management world.
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Hi David,

This is a very useful post, thank you. It gave me a great starting point to assess whether Google Wave will be useful as a project management tool for my team. At the moment I think it’s great for communication and collaboration but it looks like we’ll have to wait for the planning and tracking functionality to improve before it can replace other PM software.

Cheers, Janna
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Steven,

Completely agree. Google must integrate Google Apps. I am sure (pretty sure) we will see that functionality this year.

I looked at Planny – interface is confusing, and functionality is rather limited – wouldn’t it be better to utilize Google Calendar for project calendaring, meeting scheduling, and project timelines? And by using an integration to Google Calendar, the calendar could be published so that Project Wave participants and non-user audinece could access/atleast view calendar.
If each project, or each workinggroup published their own Google Calendar, and all the group calendars were embedded in the Wave project page, that would provide an overall view of the project timeline, highlight group meetings, and schedules.
If Planny could post info, like free time, to Google Calendar, that would be useful.
Still, the crux of the issue is integration of Wave and Calendar.

David,

I don’t have it blocked from printing. Gina (the author) does. You will have to contact her to see what you have to do to print.

How can I print the book? You have it blocked from printing.

Thank you,

David