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