Why KommandCore is like this
Passage from «Some Essays About Management»
essay
6

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

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What 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…

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

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What 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 teamwork
of participants equal in rights,
their joint movement to the objective

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What 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 approaches
to 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 to
manage independently and distribute
information 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 polysemy
of 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

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Besides, 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

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Afterword

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