The Care and Feeding of Virtual Teams
byDo you take care of your dog the same way you take care of your fish? Not if you want to keep him happy. The same idea holds for virtual teams--they require a special kind of handling.
What are the best ways to communicate successfully and seamlessly with a virtual team?
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Tailor Your Kick-off Meeting to Your Virtual Team
byA snip here and a stitch there. Let out a bit over here. Don't suck in your stomach! There, you have a kick-off meeting fit for a virtual team, no matter how spread out it has become.
No Time for Face Time?
byThe hardest thing in managing a virtual team is making sure everyone stays on the same page. Here's a quick guide that shows you how...
Virtual Team Checklist
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Here are some tips on managing a virtual team or project when your customer is in a different time zone and your project environment is dispersed or distributed.
Virtual Team in Stages
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Use this template to help manage your virtual team's performance by providing stage-specific guidance in key management areas. This handy virtual team management matrix will help you through all stages of JPACE (Justify, Plan, Activate, Control, End).
Roles of project managers for successful project management
from Project Management Central posted by onWhat are the traditional roles of a Project Manager? How do they differ in the current context? Can you share some of the practical experience where you have applied project management practices s ...
Tactical Tips for Virtual Teams
byWhile managing three virtual software implementations, this writer learned several tactical tips to remember when working with virtual teams.
Virtual Performance: Harvesting the Power of Virtual Teams
byThe effect of multitasking is just one of many variables this author is trying to uncover in his research of virtual teams. Find out what he's learned--and join in the fun by taking a survey that is sure to provide further enlightenment.
Project HEADWAY: Managing a Virtual Team: It's More Than Just The Phone
An increasing number of projects now involve team members from multiple locations across the city, the state, the country or even the world. As a project manager, you may now be managing projects where you rarely, if ever, interact face to face with your entire team. While the telephone is a critical means of communication in these instances, it is only a tool. You will still need to manage the distant team. This Project HEADWAY webinar will examine virtual teams and provide thoughts and suggestions on how you can manage them more effectively. Please join us because it really does involve more than the phone.
How to Make Virtual Teams Work Successfully
byIn the modern-day reality of global corporations, outsourcing, and a vehement emphasis on productivity, virtual teams (also known as “geographically dispersed teams”) are commonplace; even small companies have embraced virtual teams as a result of their outsourcing operations to other companies. Technological innovation and the very low cost of communication have enabled companies to overcome physical distance as an obstacle to doing business, or have they? There are multiple facets to making a virtual team work. This paper focuses on communication issues for a distributed team.
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