Rich Maltzman, Crowdsourcing, and Project Management

Posted by Mike Ramm on January 13, 2008

Rich Maltzman is a certified PMP and a project manager with huge professional experience. I didn’t know him until recently I found the Fiddler on the Project Wiki where he tries (together with Ranjit Biswas, PMP) to write a book based on the principles of crowdsourcing. While I didn’t know anything about crowdsourcing either, I started looking around and I found that generally crowdsourcing is a way to create something with the significant help from the crowd. Fiddler on the Project is an experiment in using crowdsourcing to create a book on project management with the help of a hundred participants. Intriguing, isn’t it?

Rich has created his own blog recently and there you can learn more about his book-writing experiment as well as about crowdsourcing. He also wrote a post in PM Hut where you can learn more about the relationship between crowdsourcing and project management.

I found the idea of crowdsourcing intriguing and I followed some of the links he recommended. So I got into the site of Cambrian House - the home of crowdsourcing. This is a very interesting place where people share their ideas and get help and advices from the others. I am not sure if it can really bring good results as it sounds pretty much like the OpenSource idea and I am not very fond of OpenSource but I will give it a try for a little longer before I make some conclusions. You can try it by yourself - the registration is free!

Rich’s blog is called Scope Crêpe, which sounds just like scope creep - the worst project manager’s nightmare - and was intended to be funny. I put his blog immediately in my RSS reader - there are a lot of things we can learn from Rich Maltzman and with such sense of humor I believe his blog could never be boring.

Good luck Rich! I wish you a lot of grateful readers!

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3 Responses to “Rich Maltzman, Crowdsourcing, and Project Management”

  1. Scott Del Sole on March 4th, 2008 5:06 am

    Hey Rich. Scott DelSole here. DJ and co-manager with Mark Steinbarger WSYL-FM 1978-1980. Did you know an engineering student by the name of Andy Fransman? Just curious. -Scott D.

  2. Mike Ramm on March 4th, 2008 7:39 am

    Scott, you should write your comment in Rich’s blog. There is a better chance he could read it there.

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