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Social Project Management applies the paradigm of social networking to the business process of Project Management. Whereas the Project Management 2.0 movement stressed the use of web 2.0 technologies to encourage and foster open collaboration within the project team, Social Project Management stresses two specific areas, specifically in making work observable, and in leveraging the social network of a project team to assist in project completion. To enable these two goals for large or distributed teams, technology solutions are often advocated as necessary.

Social Project Management specifically recognizes that Project Management 2.0 is challenged on large projects for three specific reasons:


 * Typical Project Management 2.0 tools are not integrated into an organization, and its social network
 * Typical Project Management 2.0 tools are limited in use to the project team
 * The unstructured wiki-based approach in Project Management 2.0 tools does not allow the structured data capture required for more rigorous project management metric measurement and tracking

Whereas Project Management 2.0 was a reaction to traditional Project Management, and against its perceived focus on strong central planning and control, Social Project Management recognizes the value of the core requirements of traditional Project Management, namely the need to plan, secure, organize and manage a team and its resources in order to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. Social Project Management seeks to address certain issues that exist with traditional project management, specifically those issues that exist regadgin communication and visibility.

Confusion About Terminology
The terms Social Project Management and Project Management 2.0 are often used interchangeably, which has caused significant confusion. However the two concepts are distinct. Project Management 2.0 stresses egalitarian project leadership, whereas Social Project Management recognizes the key role of the Project Manager. Project Management 2.0