A promise made in public is a promise kept!

We are constantly thinking about what the future holds for Project Management. It is clear that groups are changing the way they manage projects. New highly available tools like Pelotonics are helping groups and organzations get a handle on what needs to be done and where things are at.

A friend of my mother contacted me on Facebook recently and stated that she had a funny picture of my mom that she was going to send to me. Now, if this was just an email or phone-based promise, the chances of me seeing that picture go waaaay down. In my view, because she COMMITTED to send me the picture on a semi-public forum like Facebook, it happened like clock work! She scanned in the picture from the 80’s and sent it to me via email. A scant two years ago this same individual would have most likely not have done this citing it was too complicated or most likely she would have forgotten and moved on to other priorities.

It is my observation that a promise or committment made in public is much more likely to get done as stated. Leaving a Milestone or Task in Pelotonics assigned to a specific individual is a highly efficient way of getting things done; because they actually get done!

Do an experiment. Delegate something via email only and pay attention to the timelyness and accuracy of the output. Then delegate something in a public forum that has some legacy like Pelotonics, a Wiki or Facebook. You will notice that those tasks and deliverables made and agreed to in a public setting are much more likely to get finished on time and with more accuracy.

It is in everyone’s best interest to make Project Management a public and social endeavor. Over the next few months be looking for more social aspects to the Pelotonics platform!

Give delegation in a public forum a try! I would love to hear the outcome of your experiments.

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