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Terrence L. Gargiulo, MMHS is an eight times author, international speaker, organizational development consultant and group process facilitator specializing in the use of stories. He holds a Master of Management in Human Services from the Florence Heller School at Brandeis University. He is a recipient of Inc. Magazine's Marketing Master Award, the 2008 HR Leadership Award from the Asia Pacific HRM Congress, and is a member of Brandeis University’s athletic Hall of Fame. He has appeared on Fox TV, CN8, and on CNN radio among others. He can be reached at terrence@makingstories.net.

Three Pitfalls of Virtual Collaboration in Project Management

By Terrence L. Gargiulo -

Jul 22, 2010

It’s hard enough to manage people and projects when you can apply the expertise you’ve learned from years of management experience. Working with people at a distance adds new challenges. It gives your company more opportunities, but you also need to learn new project management skills to make remote teams work.

Companies and organizations encourage the formation of virtual teams for many reasons, from a desire to bring together shared technical expertise to a budget-inspired outsourcing arrangement.

Making a virtual team work – and deliver the project on time – isn’t exactly the same as on-site project management, however. Virtual collaboration adds to the risks inherent in any project. You’re probably aware of the challenges of working with non-collocated colleagues, such as maintaining security, managing data and coordinating contributors’ work efforts. These are works in progress.

Here we expose three not-so-obvious pitfalls. READ MORE