Plogging: The Virtues of ChitChat

The current CIO magazine has a fantastic article on the use of unfiltered blogs by corporate IT units, and plogs, or project blogs, to hash out issues that invariably arise from the implementaiton of any project. As the article points out, plogs would succeed or fail depending on their cultural context, but would provide a quick and efficient means of promoting frank discussion among team members, as well as a reality check for management. Also needed, and not stated explicitly in the article, would be an extraordinary level of trust among team members and an even more extraordinary level of respect between team members and management.