Abstract
Informal projects, such as schoolwork and social meetings, are managed by groups in a collaborative way. Conventional management approaches are not suitable to deal with dynamism and decentralization required by informal projects. Although commonly used, communication tools alone are not sufficient for managing informal projects, due to a lack of coordination mechanisms and project awareness. Based on recommendations of cooperative work, motivation mechanisms and project management, we propose a framework to aid the collaborative management of informal projects. The framework consists of five guidelines regarding projects definition, activities’ management, responsibility sharing, contribution recognition, and project visibility. We demonstrate that the proposed framework is practical by building a mobile application. Based on two case studies, we show that the framework assist management activities and also foster participation and recognition. We also discuss the use to the framework to analyze an existing tool in a way to identify weaknesses and improvements.
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Ferreira, L., Bezerra, J., Hirata, C. (2018). Towards a Framework for Aiding the Collaborative Management of Informal Projects. In: Hammoudi, S., Śmiałek, M., Camp, O., Filipe, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. ICEIS 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 321. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93375-7_1
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