2008-10-06

Using blogger as a project menagement platform

Nowadays, there are lots of softwares or tools for project management. In this article, however, I will introduce a method to manage project just by Blogger!

We know Blogger.com are amazing blogger platform to write blog, share with friends and interact with friends. Thanks Blogger.com for providing us the powerful, totally free platform. Then, how to manage project throght blogger.com? Let's figure it out!

Commonly, the project management should have two major function:
  1. project wiki
  2. project issue management
The wiki is the easy way to present project requirement, information, how-to-do, and other information. Blogger can be act as wiki easily. Create your blogger as project wiki, label it with project name and other information, such as: Myproject, requirement, design, etc...

Other people in the project team could view all the project information through these labels, and can comment on it. So this is wiki feature.

The issue management is also a blog article. We create a blog with label "Bug" as an issue. when the issue has been fixed, we label this blog "Fixed". when it has been reopen, we fixed it with "reopen" and so on.

Thus, we using label to manange project wiki and issues. Threre are also some skills to help us using blog as a project menagement platform:
  1. prject name can be a label.
  2. if the project are private, you can manage who can read your blog by blogger settings.
  3. if you have many projects and every project has its different authority strategy, you can create a blog site for every project.

By using blogger as a project menagement platform, there are some benefits:
  1. free to use
  2. fully extends to many projects
  3. more tricks of blogger you can use
This is just a begining, we will find more function or tricks to manage project through blogger. Thank Blogger.com and thank you for reading, if you have something to say, comments are welcome!

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