Having all members of a project team in one place is mostly a luxury any more. It’s happened to me once in the past seven years. It’s almost unheard of if you’re working for a company with more than one location and any international or work from home employees. It just doesn’t make sense to go to extreme measures to co-locate an entire team for one project – especially when so many project professionals work on more than one project at a time (sometimes as many as five or more).
So, given this, virtual project teams seem like the way to go, right? Organizations can save millions of dollars and everyone can be working in their shorts and t-shirts all day. But this scenario isn’t without its own challenges that must be planned for and addressed. The key for the project manager is to keep a globally dispersed project team fully engaged and communicating effectively with each other and the customer. And to keep the customer confidence high when they are working with a project team that they may never see – or at least may never see the whole team – during the course of the engagement.
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So, given this, virtual project teams seem like the way to go, right? Organizations can save millions of dollars and everyone can be working in their shorts and t-shirts all day. But this scenario isn’t without its own challenges that must be planned for and addressed. The key for the project manager is to keep a globally dispersed project team fully engaged and communicating effectively with each other and the customer. And to keep the customer confidence high when they are working with a project team that they may never see – or at least may never see the whole team – during the course of the engagement.
For the full article, go here...
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