The Virtual Project Manager: Seven Best Practices for Effective Communication

With the surge in telecommuting practices, the twenty-first century project manager faces increasingly more complex challenges in managing his or her team. This white paper discusses the challenges faced by the virtual project manager and specifies the best practices that should be employed for effective communication, including establishing a clear communication plan, accounting for informal discussions, mastering the technology used, conducting structured meetings and leveraging email as an efficient tool.

4 Virtual PM Challenges

A virtual project manager is physically separated from the project team, the stakeholders and perhaps even the client. How can PMs make sure they are effective in this role?

Build a Virtual Team Work Infrastructure to Avoid Collaboration Misfires

Virtual teams have special communication obstacles that are not necessarily solved elegantly by the communication tools available in your project. You must combine multiple applications to create an infrastructure to meet the needs of virtual teams to interact and to complete project deliverables.

Communicating Well with Your Virtual Team

Nearly everyone deals with virtual teams in the current business environment, so you are already communicating with virtual resources. But communicating well is a key part of managing a project with a virtual team.

Managing Virtual Projects with Success

A virtual team can be effective by adopting proven virtual collaboration tools, establishing team performance metrics and promoting supplementary processes that align with the organization’s project management methodology.

Managing Virtually, or Virtually Managing? Personal Connection at a Distance

Technology, mobility and the sheer expense of office real estate has taken distance working from daring and uncertain trend to fully embraced reality. What this has mostly produced is a state of affairs where many of our most meaningful professional interactions are mediated by technology, rather than face to face--and that's where the danger lies.

Remote Control: The Virtual PM

Can a project manager manage their team virtually, and if so what adjustments are necessary? To be successful, a virtual PM has to overcome many communication-related issues. Here we explore an effective approach.

The Importance of Virtual Collaboration

Collaboration is a tool that helps propel projects and teams to new heights. But how do you collaborate successfully while many or all of the workers involved are not physically in the office? Keep these four tips in mind.

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