Wikis in Project Management

From WikiSym 2008

Participants : Alès Cerin, A. Silvelo, M. Moreira, J. Bonnet, Holger Junghanna, Koust Kolomeek, Marija Cubric, A. Gregorowicz, Steward Mahder, Martin Cleaver, Martin Steibert, Camille Goksever, Alexander Mette, Régis Barondeau (Facilitator) (Please correct typos and add your name if you are not on the list)

Discussed :

How to use wikis in PM? What kind of tools are we using? Limits of wikis for PM How could wikis can help us to deal with some problems in PM?

Uses of wikis for PM :

- risk management matrix - task management - collaborative authoring - knowledge management - case stories - calendars - to dos - news

Comments :

Wikis if well deployed can greatly improve productivity in PM

Examples of wiki engines used in PM :

• TikiWiki : because you by mixing trackers with wiki pages or section becomes a poweful tool.
• Twiki : we didn't give lots of details but this wiki has interesting features for PM
• Confluence+Jira : Wiki+issue tracking is a commercial solution you can use for PM
• SharePoint: because a lot of other needed PM-features are available in SharePoint (calendar, project blog, task management, ad hoc lists, document repositories, mailing list)
• Mediawiki: w or w/o extensions

Actions :

Not define, it was more an open discussion to learn from each other

Overall comment : Interesting ideas came out, but we can see that there is not one way to use wikis in PM but as many ways as projects.