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Virtual project teams: How to make them work
One of the most recent legacies of the explosion of Internet technology is that of the virtual project team: a workplace team that does not work together in real space or even real time, but is connected through online technology. Virtual project teams offer many advantages: they allow effective employees to be connected with one another, even though the workers may not work in the same office or even the same country. However, operating in the context of such a team poses some undeniable challenges for team leadership.
Project interfaces
Both synchronous and asynchronous project interfaces are open to members of virtual project teams. One of the primary methods in which virtual project teams connect with one another is through email. Email is, in general, an asynchronous method of communication, one of the vital differences between a traditional project team and a virtual project team. In other words, someone in Dubai can post a comment about the project at 2pm while someone on the same project in Australia can read and comment upon that same issue the day after at 8am in his time zone. There is a lack of immediate back-and-forth dialogue via email; also, the ease of pointing and clicking without having to emotionally connect with the person on the other side can...
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