The 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.
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.
When it comes to managing virtual teams, technology comes with the territory. A project manager obviously needs a way to communicate with team members—and hopping on the next flight to a project site halfway around the world isn’t always an option.
There are certain strategies and actions that the PM may take when managing a virtual team in order to make it more productive. These strategies will also increase the likelihood for a successful project implementation--and hopefully a very satisfied customer post-deployment.
Enterprise 2.0 software platforms offer opportunities for project teams to collaborate more efficiently with the promises of increased innovation, greater productivity, and agility. This paper presents a history of electronic collaboration, a proposal for a strategic approach to the selection of the collaborative technology for the virtual teams across the organization, and the steps in selecting the vendor.
From discussion threads to file sharing, from wikis to schedules, the collaborative workspace has become integral to projects. It allows dispersed people to work on the project and share their progress in one centralized location--and are vital to the success of most project teams.
Distributed agile teams have to overcome distance and time to achieve what Alistair Cockburn describes as "osmotic communication" -- tacit knowledge and spontaneous discussion. Speakers at an October ...
The nature of today's workplace no longer requires workers to be bound to a physical location. The following tips will help you manage your virtual team so that your project does not instead become a dreaded nightmare due to the significant challenges of managing remote resources.
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.
Teams can’t produce or perform well when they don’t trust one another. The lack of face-to-face interaction can make building and maintaining good trust relationships in a virtual team challenging. This presentation will discuss the importance of real trust in a virtual environment and explore strategies for building good trust relationships that will thrive within a team of people who never meet in person.
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