An empirical study of long term personal project information management
Purpose Personal projects are any kind of projects whose management is left to an individual untrained in project management and is greatly influenced by this individual's personal touch. This includes the majority of knowledge workers who daily manage information relating to several personal projects. The authors have conducted an in depth qualitative investigation on information management of such projects and the tacit knowledge behind its processes that cannot be found in the organisational structures of current personal information management (PIM) tools (file managers, e mail clients, web browsers) The purpose of this paper is to reveal and understand project information management practices in details and provide guidelines for personal project management tools. Design/methodology/approach Semi structured interviews similar to that in several other PIM exploratory studies were carried out focusing on project fragmentation, information overlap and project context recreation. In addition, the au.
Aslib J. Inf. Manag.