Wikis for project communication and management

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anu

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Alistair from Headshift talking about using a wiki (Confluence) for project communication / management during a project. Always good to hear real stories from the field, and I love the idea of creating the minutes during the meeting..

We've been using our enterprise wiki, Confluence, to keep track of things, and I have to say, it's proved an invaluable tool for this situation. In the planning meetings - which can last hours - we can very quickly record our technical discussions and create agreed minutes in the meeting itself, as we go along. The only tools needed are a web browser and, ideally, a projector, and the attendees can see the meeting notes (and the plan itself) developing in real time. This also helps keep the meeting focussed : you have an identifiable goal ( "ok, by the end of this meeting we want to have sections X, Y and Z done..." ) and everyone can see the progress towards that goal as it happens. Even non-attendees can see the progress of the meeting while it's taking place, either by viewing the in-progress Confluence page or via RSS.

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