WEB TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT SUPPORTING CONTEMPORARY PROJECT MANAGEMENT NEEDS

During the last two decades, projects have become increasingly important and recognizable tools for achieving competitiveness, strategic aims and much needed positive changes. The consequence of this, among other things, is the growing number of projects which emerge and are carried out in all business systems around the world. With the growing number of projects, there arose the need for trained project managers. In order to successfully do their tasks, it is very important for project managers to know and understand various techniques and methods of project management. The rate at which the number of formally trained project managers is growing and the dynamics of their adaptation to the specifi cities of today’s business environment is still insuffi cient. Development of user-friendly IT support tools which would enable project managers to successfully implement projects without previous very long and intense project training imposes itself as a possible and increasingly available solution to the above mention problem. The development of IT technology and software increased enormously in the last decade. The emergence of Web 2.0 technology finds new solutions, very useful and applicable also in the field of project management. These options are currently still underutilized by companies when dealing with projects. Capabilities of existing and emerging solutions of Web 2.0 development and the open source community create important value and the potential to increase the efficiency of project management.The emergence of the Semantic Web (Web 3.0) currently being developed and implemented, with its innovations and technologies based on semantic and artificial intelligence, is expected to greatly change the present concepts of doing business. In the paper we will analyze the importance and possibilities arising from new web technologies (especially Web 2.0 and Web 3.0) when dealing with project management issues.