Why KommandCore is like thisPassage from «Some Essays About Management»

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Why is KommandCore like this?

To answer this question correctly let’s remind the history of our system development

Relying on our experience of participation in different projects and managing them we came to realize that it’s possible to manage projects having just

a pen and a piece of paper at your fingertips

But why do I have to work in more complicated way than just using a pen and a piece of paper?

Why do the existing software products and web-services designed for project management

make my work more difficult

than it could be?

Where are simple, free management and communication?

It’s natural that all these questions required some adequate, in our understanding, IT-platform for project management

We needed in such system which would have let us manage projects

quickly, dynamically and easily

What have we seen on the market?

System ideology, set of tools, interface of software and web-services often reflect the way of thinking which is more typical for IT technical specialists

As if these products were created by technical specialists and for technical specialists

We came to realize that there is no product made by managers and for managers on the market!

We found our niche

As far as we realized that, we didn’t begin to develop such system just for our personal need, but decided at once to initiate the separate innovative project for development of such a web-service and its launching on the market

1What have we wanted to give to KommandCore users?

We wanted our users to find esthetic delight in gracefully functioning service, admiring visual beauty

To make you switch on and feel easy, cozy, free, equal when our product using

To make what we created comfortable and useful for you, let KommandCore to make you life easier

And that’s not occasional that we began with words about beauty which we were eager

to create and to bring it to our users

One science-fiction writer describes a very revealing scene where there is a dialogue between a well-known fashion designer and one of the protagonists of the novel

- Eccentricity, as a rule, serves for talent concealment, …, here you, maestro, have told, that throughout your life you have tried to retain beauty in this world.

But why did you use the word «to retain»?

Isn’t it because beauty and harmony appear more and more denied by this world, and their place is occupied by eccentricity, kitsch, anguish.

And isn’t it the duty of any real artist to resist to it with all his strength?

And not to follow the bad taste giving the ball…

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Just think what our eternal haste results in, our aspiration to do something quickly, to earn quickly?

We have no time left for seeing the beauty around us;

we have no time for creating such beauty around us,

to create it for others

And more and more insipid,

callous, faceless things, objects, pictures, people surround us

We cannot live so, work so, do our business so

We want to retain beauty in this world very much

We want you very much to receive real esthetic pleasure from working with our KommandCore service, because

it’s important for us

2What we wanted to save the users of KommandCore from

First of all, we wanted to save

KommandCore users

from insets!

All information in web-services is often split up through a standard set of insets, for example such insets as «Letters», «Chats», «Milestones», «Files»

In reality they are filters, through which people try to structure and

simplify a project

How should one keep this system and not tear the integral logic of the project with filters?

To get rid of such pre-determined filters is a variant

For this reason we have decided to get rid of insets

Moreover, that’s why all information streams in our service are adjusted in accordance with requirements of a concrete user

And also we wanted to save you from control

The project is always teamworkof participants equal in rights, their joint movement to the objective

3What possibilities we put in the KommandCore service

We have created the system for management

For simple and agile management

The key element of the system intended for that is Kommand Line

Any information coming from us can be managerial influence!

That is why, creation of any informational object within the system (a letter, a task, etc.) is perceived as the managerial influence and is carried out through Kommand Line

We implemented in KommandCore simple and logical approachesto information processing

How do we work with information?

We constantly determine what we want to see, and what we do not

It’s important for any person tomanage independently and distributeinformation streams, to filter information by his own rules

We are convinced that information centralization should take place in a person

If to speak about information display, so in our understanding all information objects are equivalent

We do not do distinguish between files, tasks, letters, etc.

They are absolutely equivalent objects, and all of them are in the same information field and re-displayed

The contextual factor and polysemyof informational objects have led to the refusal of information storage (first of all, files) in folders and insets

In our system you won’t lose any object

Smart folders and Marks will help you to avoid that

That’s just one part of possibilities we built in our system

4Besides, the platform for coordination of networked and network-centric organizations

It’s natural that while system developing we founded KommandCore on network and network-centric logic of functioning

The world already lives and functions in the network format

The same logic penetrates into the business world more and more and starts to be used in it

Exactly for this reason in KommandCore we have built a reserve oriented to the future: a set of possibilities and tools for management of networked and network-centric organizations, possibilities for project management in the networked logic

5Afterword

Anyway, it’s an early beginning

And this book is not written up to the end yet

We’ll become more mature, we’ll be communicating with you; our perception of reality, our understanding of life will change together with you

KommandCore will grow and change together with it

And we’ll be finishing this book

Thanks for your attention!P.S. You got to know the passage of our book «Some Essays About Management»

The book is available in whole on the page «Vision» of our site www.kommandcore.com

Lively management of projects