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Author : Martha Haywood
Publisher : Artech House Professional Deve
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0890069131
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Author : Paul E. McMahon
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781420025521
Virtual Project Management: Software Solutions for Today and the Future explores the technical management issues involved in the revolutionary new way of building complex software intensive systems faster and cheaper by employing the power of distributed operations. The book examines the implementation issues that cut deep inside present day collocated engineering organizations and recommends practical and affordable actions to aid organizations seeking increased productivity through distributed operations. The demand for integrated solutions constructed from a combination of existing and newly developed software increases daily. Many organizations find themselves with shortages of the critical skills necessary to compete in many of these newly created markets. Employing virtual collaborative development provides a dramatic increase in a company's opportunities to successfully compete. Virtual collaboration provides a broader skill and product knowledge base coupled with a deeper pool of personnel to potentially employ. It removes two of the major barriers - company affiliation and physical location. Virtual Project Management: Software Solutions for Today and the Future focuses on critical characteristics underlying how work actually gets done in traditional collocated engineering environments. It examines the changes taking place on virtual projects through a series of anecdotes based on real project experiences. The book provides an 8 step practical and affordable plan that can be used as a framework in either setting up and executing a new virtual project, or in instituting improvements to a project that has drifted off course. Others have lived through the pain of learning lessons the hard way. You don't need to follow their path. The insights and solutions offered by Paul McMahon answer the questions virtual project leaders will be asking well into the 21st century.
Author : Russ J. Martinelli,James M. Waddell,Tim J. Rahschulte
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119376408
Clear, proven solutions for virtual project management challenges Projects Without Boundaries offers project managers a clear framework for bringing both project management practices and project team leadership principles to the virtual space. Written by a team of authors with years of experience managing nationally and internationally distributed teams, this book provides a suite of best practices, checklists, and actionable strategies for managing a project and building a high-performing team in a virtual and multicultural environment. Real-world examples illustrate the application of the concepts discussed, and the Virtual Project Readiness Assessment facilitates both team evaluation and transformation planning for virtual project management improvement. Each chapter focuses on the critical challenges encountered while managing virtual projects and details proven solutions that improve a virtual organization, boost project performance, and facilitate positive outcomes. Globalization and technological advances have merged to create dynamic, productive teams that work together from around the globe; this opportunity can bring great difficulty for project managers, who must negotiate hurdles that do not exist on traditional projects. This book provides ready-made solutions specific to distributed and multicultural teams, to help you achieve the full potential of the global talent pool. Overcome common challenges of virtual projects with distributed teams Navigate complex team dynamics to ensure effective collaboration Work seamlessly across borders, time zones, and cultures Determine optimal virtual communication and collaboration tools Apply traditional project management practices in a virtual setting A team fails or thrives on the strength of its management. Fitting the group's needs, expectations, personalities, and skills into a cohesive whole is seldom simple — and distance adds an additional layer of complexity. Projects Without Boundaries provides expert guidance on keeping it together, with proven practices, tools, and virtual team leadership strategies.
Author : Margaret R. Lee
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000364378
The second decade of the 21st century brought unprecedented challenges to traditional workplaces forcing the advance of working from home (telework) due to a global virus pandemic. Individuals with little or no background or training in e-leadership, virtual project management, or virtual team management suddenly found themselves in the environment of virtual work. Leading Virtual Project Teams, Second Edition addresses the challenges that today’s virtual project management environment poses to traditional methods of leadership and communication. Leadership for successful virtual team management is different from traditional, collocated project team management. Being familiar with appropriate e-leadership styles for virtual project teams and the transition toward new leadership styles, communication techniques for virtual project teams, and e-leadership competencies is an important part of managing projects and human resources in successful organizations today. The second edition also examines: Virtual meeting techniques Inclusive language Managing virtual relationships Why virtual work is now more important The work-at-home environment By recognizing how virtual teams are different from traditional teams, those managing virtual projects may be able to offer benefits to their organization by providing positive, successful leadership and exceptional communications, resulting in better project deliverables and products. This book provides an approach that explores all facets of e-leadership—from how traditional leadership theories and models can be applied by 21st century leaders to providing methods by which the virtual project manager can enhance virtual project communications to meet the needs of our modern global business world. It features project management checklists and templates and includes business cases, best practices, and tools and techniques for virtual project management communications.
Author : Marcus Goncalves
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780071454629
Managing a project can be stressful enough without the added difficulty of coordinating project members working from different sites--or even continents! Managing Virtual Projects outlines techniques, practices, and products that are being effectively used by virtual project managers around the globe. With more projects being outsourced every day, managers will turn here to get the knowledge they need on maintaining quality and budget controls, developing documentation standards, implementing essential technologies such as Microsoft's EPM or Primavera, and more.
Author : Jan Sickinger
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783656006480
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensführung, Management, Organisation, Note: 1,7, FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management gemeinnützige GmbH, Düsseldorf früher Fachhochschule, Veranstaltung: Project Management Tools and Organisation, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: While a project is a form of organisation which is characterised through its uniqueness, its novelty and a fixed end date, a virtual project team is distributed over different locations worldwide, but working together as one team. Remote communication between the team members is done through synchronous and asynchronous means of virtual communication. Because these media cannot transmit the full bandwidth of human communication, there must be rules set how to act with these different means of virtual communication in order to prevent frustration and communication problems. Additional difficulties may arise when a virtual project team is composed of people with different cultural backgrounds. In such a case, a project manager of a virtual team has to join communication skills with intercultural skills. In order to work together under these circumstances, team building is crucial to make a virtual project a success. Successful team building in a virtual project first of all means that people with the right characteristics have to be chosen to form a virtual project team. For example, they must have a high level of self-organisation and social competence. Furthermore, building trust is crucial in order to make people who may never see each other in real life successfully work together. In order to manage the task of a virtual project, a project manager of such a team needs a high level of social skills coupled with the skills of a motivator. The Blended Delivery model of Logica, a global provider of IT services, where a local core team works together with an extended virtual team, may be a good compromise between virtual and non-virtual project work and may combine benefits of bot
Author : Parviz F. Rad,Ginger Levin
Publisher : J. Ross Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1932159037
Corporate location is no longer a constraint when pursuing business opportunities in support of strategic goals. Achieving Project Management Success Using Virtual Teams presents success factors for a virtual project team and illustrates an approach for assessing the performance of the team. It contains evaluation tools for team members, describing how best to manage and motivate different people on virtual team assignments to achieve optimal results.
Author : Marcus Goncalves,Marcus Gonçalves
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780071459174
Globalization and increased outsourcing have redefined project management. The complex dynamics involved in today's long-distance projects require a new skill set and knowledge base unlike anything needed before. Here, leading project management expert Marcus Goncalves presents a complete guide to implementing the virtual project management office (ePMO). Leveraging his information technology expertise and PM experience, Goncalves offers cutting-edge techniques for managing projects across borders, working with colleagues and clients from different cultures, and utilizing the necessary telecommunication/Internet technologies ePM managers and their virtual teams and remote PM offices must have. Implementing the Virtual Project Management Office complies with the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) guidelines and extends them to ePMO. After analyzing the benefits of ePM versus conventional project management, Goncalves presents an in-depth discussion of ePM practices, scenarios, and challenges, aided by real-world examples and insightful case studies. Providing a full focus on the management and execution of virtual projects, Goncalves demonstrates the time- and cost-saving advantages, showing how to begin realizing those advantages immediately. He gives you: Guidelines for building virtual project teams Step-by-step best practices for keeping an eProject on course Techniques for measuring project performance and earned value eTools for controlling project quality Ways to integrate speed, change, and innovation for ePM success A customer-driven approach to ePM Goncalves provides comprehensive information on developing a state-of-the-art virtual project management office, from the necessary structure and environment to the technology. He also defines what concurrent ePM is and the need for change management during the process. The bonus CD features sample policies, forms, budgets, checklists, and software (including the award winning Mindmanager, from Mindjet) to assist in your ePMO implementation.
Author : David Pauleen
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781591401667
Virtual teams are a relatively new phenomenon and by definition work across time, distance, and organizations through the use of information and communications technology. Virtual Teams: Projects, Protocols and Processes gathers the best of academic research on real work-based virtual teams into one book. It offers a series of chapters featuring practical research, insight and recommendations on how virtual team projects can be better managed, as well as in depth discussion on issues critical to virtual team success, including the place of virtual teams in organizations, leadership, trust and relationship building, best use of technology, and knowledge sharing.
Author : Robert L. Gordon DM,Wanda Curlee DM, PMP, PgMP, PMI-RMP
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781567263565
Successfully Launch and Operate a Virtual Project Management Office New technology and global businesses and organizations are making virtual project management offices (VPMOs) more important and more prevalent than ever. Successfully operating a VPMO requires project managers to employ additional skills and address different challenges from those necessary to operate a traditional PMO. For example, the virtual project manager must have effective soft skills to build trust among a dispersed team and to select the best forms of communication. He or she must also ensure compliance with the unique policies, procedures, and laws relevant to maintaining a VPMO. This book offers best practices for successful virtual projects and the most effective ways to create and implement a PMO in a virtual environment. It's a valuable resource for companies considering a VPMO and those already operating one. You'll find: - Proven implementation plans - Guidance for building a business case - Laws and ethics governing VPMOs - Tips and advice from experts Plus! Dozens of practical tools to use in launching a VPMO or improving an existing project management office.
Author : Penny Pullan
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749475970
The future of work is virtual, with dispersed teams, telecommuting, remote working and virtual meetings becoming the norm across sectors and industries around the world. However leading virtual teams requires a new set of skills and a facilitative leadership approach, Virtual Leadership is here to help. At its best, virtual working can be productive and creative, tapping into the best people wherever they are and bringing skills and experience together efficiently and at low cost. But it can also lead to isolated and disengaged workers, ineffective communication, and uncoordinated and even counter-productive activity. Virtual Leadership provides practical strategies, tools and solutions for the key issues involved in managing at a distance. How can I provide leadership, motivation and vision through virtual channels? How do I make virtual meetings effective, engaging and productive, and ensure actions are followed through? How do I create engaged and cohesive teams across distance, cultures and languages? How do I stop virtual team members silently checking out, distracted by local challenges and offline issues? With diverse case studies and examples, this is the essential guide to making a difference as a leader of virtual work.
Author : M. Katherine Brown,Brown,Brenda Huettner,Charlene James-Tanny
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781449612979
This book provides practical advice for managers of distributed teams who must design the internal systems and meet deadlines with a diverse team, and for team members who want to develop and maintain professional relationships. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.
Author : Debbie D. DuFrene
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781606492611
Virtual teams are an integral part of today's global business environment. Traditional face-to-face communication is frequently being replaced with technology mediated communication methods including phone, email, fax, synchronous chat programs, and videoconferencing. While virtual teams offer various advantages to organizations and individuals in flexibility and the ability to overcome geographic distance, they face unique challenges. Virtual teams are often made up of members of various cultures with diverse communication styles. Men and women also tend to behave differently in virtual environments. Challenges occur in the forming, storming, norming, and performing phases of team development, and virtual teams must be able to cope effectively with those obstacles if they are to be successful and reach their potential. Team participants should be selected carefully for various personal characteristics that help assure success and trained in how to be effective virtual team members. Various team strategies can be implemented to improve effectiveness and satisfaction of virtual team members.
Author : Niki Panteli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Virtual work teams
ISBN : 1526441977
The case presents a real-life situation that is often experienced among managers of virtual, geographically dispersed project teams. These are teams with limited, if any, face-to-face contact among co-workers and team members. Problems occur when there are changing project requirements and when there is poor coordination and communication among project team members themselves. As such, you want your co-workers, or even your project manager, to communicate with you but they don't; instead they remain silent. In these conditions, the dispersed members may feel frustrated, rejected and withdrawn, all of which have the potential to negatively affect individual and overall project performance. The case asks what the manager's role should be in such situations. Students are also encouraged to think in terms of what needs to be done in order to avoid such situations and build effective virtual teams.
Author : Margaret R. Lee
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781466576896
In a 1945 speech, Winston Churchill stated, "We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past." Was Churchill predicting the future of project management? Have we changed how we communicate and lead projects? Have leadership and management theories and models evolved to keep pac
