How to manage virtual teams?
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Virtual team, distributed team, virtualization, virtual teams, time zone, project management, project, communication, decision making,
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How many times in the past, we have seen managers used to colocate team members because of the high levels of interdependencies that are inherent in group work. Today with teams increasingly consisting of people who are based in dispersed geographical locations, come from different cultural backgrounds and all together there is a time zone difference, so, interms of handling a project under these circumstances becomes all the more difficult. So people lets discuss How to manage virtual teams? And let's discuss all the know how's of Handling a virtual team. Do share your views on this...
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Promote self-leadership across the team.
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An effective agenda, with a Moderator
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Nitin kumar
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"An effective agenda, with a Moderator"
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Yes i am perfectaly ok with this concept..its the time saving as well as....innovative for the new experience... person can perform ...lots more by just having Remote desk top or by virtual machine...i am supporting this ..comcept becasue i am...
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Wayne-Russell Macedo
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"Promote self-leadership across the team."
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True Sumitra, it probably boils down to self ownership...self responsibility...self consciousness...etc...
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RAMANATHA PRABHU N
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"Promote self-leadership across the team."
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Each and every team will have its own unique character depending on the charactor of its members, their contributions etc. Its charactor changes when a member expell or when a new member enters, I mean to say a group with diversified geographical...
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Communication Effectiveness.
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Ineffecient program management and variations in work culture
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Vivek Venkatachalam
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"Work Culture and Mindset differences"
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People working in different regions/countries have different priorities and thereby different level of commitment which inturn effects the delivery timelines to be negotiated.
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akshaya bhatia
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"Ineffecient program management and variations in work culture"
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Besides communication effectiveness that may be owing to lacunae in technology, other bottlenecks due to inadequate communication planning, a global virtual environment can suffer because of differences in work culture and local work environment,...
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Madhuparna Das
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"Communication Effectiveness."
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Well said.Without proper communication a technically sound person appears to be useless until he can present his view publicly be it in the virtual world or somewhere else.
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Ideate: "What are the factors that affect a Virtual (distributed) team?" deleted from your view.
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Manish Badarkhe
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Virtual projetcs are not same as normal projects. Virtual projects requires a broader as there is no face to face discussion in order to grasp view of sender.As in normal projects it is real easy stuff to develop any project by meeting a strict...
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shivanand shenoy
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yes, as the the mind and thought process that is integrating the assignment does not give weightage to a persons physical presences rather the person picks up the information as given by the team or data and perform.hence more and more like...
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sumitra dutta
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"No"
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No, the needs are not same. Virtual teams are governed essentially the by same fundamental principles as traditional teams. Yet, there is one critical difference. This difference is the way the team members communicate. Instead of using the full...
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Debate: "Are needs of virtual & Normal project team one and the same?" deleted from your view.
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Knowledge Sharing & Unity
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Diversity / heterogeneity
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Kaj Voetmann
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"Diverse underlying organizational models"
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Geert Hofstede investigated this. Different cultures has different combinations of 5 dimensions. You can find the results on http://www.geert-hofstede.com/hofstede_india.shtml . He suggests each culture has an underlying organizational model. He...
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Sayantan Bhaumik
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"Diversity / heterogeneity"
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Diversity or heterogeneity helps to solve complex problems more easily due to ideas from cross communities. It also makes people more helpful to peers, provided it is encouraged by the top management. However, being merely cross cultural will not...
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Kunal Dutta
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" Knowledge Sharing & Unity"
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very useful insight on the benefits of cross cultural workforce. cross-cultural teams have good people mix.people from different cultures have their unique approach to a particular situation which may be beneficial for each team member if they...
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Mutual Trust and Shared Responsibility and unified efforts to achieving the Common Goal
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Enthusiam and discipline of every participant.
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Vinay Pandey
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"Enthusiam and discipline of every participant."
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I don't find any good reason for team restricted to number of people, unless you fall short of people with management skill. Team size never matters as long as you can manage them and every participant in the team has enthusiasm for his/her work...
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Resmi Maxim
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"Mutual Trust and Shared Responsibility and unified efforts to achieving the Common Goal"
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Mutual Trust and shared responsibility, Understanding the Common Goal, Openness to constructive opinion and criticism, Initiative, respect and tolerence to others sentiments and suggestions etc etc . there are many other factors too. Most...
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SIP protocol is worth with GSM mobile
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SIP protocol is not worth with GSM mobile
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sunil kumar singh
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"SIP protocol is worth with GSM mobile "
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according to me this some thing complex but it is still a fallback mechanism where user have option to select SIP with VOIP network or GSM network so phone is work with least cost network, which cost low for user prospective.
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Debate: "is sip protocol implementation with gsm mobile worth for telecom future ?" deleted from your view.
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