Author Archives: Loyal

Update on Whiteboards for Virtual Teams

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Loyal

The design goal of many collaboration tools is to reproduce as closely as possible some aspect of the face-to-face meeting experience so that virtual project teams can be as productive as co-located teams. What I have found is that some … Continue reading →

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Update on Key Communications Technologies for Virtual Teams

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Loyal

As someone with a great deal of personal experience working in virtual teams and having managed a collaboration technologies research team for several years, I am very familiar with the obvious as well as subtle problems with the collaboration tools … Continue reading →

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A Great Time to Practice Telecommuting

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Loyal

We are a week away to a possible BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) strike in the San Francisco area…again. If your people can’t get to work, what will you do? Your competition elsewhere in the world is not encumbered by … Continue reading →

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Communicate Effectively with Technology

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Loyal

The number of technologies we have at our fingertips today to communicate with our virtual project team members is nothing short of daunting. In addition to the most natural and effective method we all know as ” face-to-face,” we have … Continue reading →

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It's Times Like These…

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Loyal

It is times like these that I wonder why it is that virtual teams and telecommuting are not a standard part of every company’s business continuity plans or, better still, part of the core of the way of doing business. … Continue reading →

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Resolving Disagreements in Virtual Teams

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Loyal

One of the more difficult team dynamics project managers must face from time-to-time is conflict. The ‘conflict’ can be project-related or interpersonal, but either way, strong feelings are often involved, making rational resolutions difficult. For virtual teams where face-to-face time … Continue reading →

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Go Ahead, Be Bold!

Posted on February 1, 2009 by Loyal

I’m sure you’ve all heard that old saying, “There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.” That adage applies just as well to project managers where ‘bold’ equals ‘risk-taking’.  I’m also sure … Continue reading →

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The Future of Virtual Project Teams, part 2

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Loyal

In the first part of this series I talked about how future project leaders may select team members for their projects. In this installment, I will discuss the future of virtual team spaces, which include real-time tools that facilitate ‘in-person’ … Continue reading →

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The Future of Virtual Project Teams

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Loyal

I always enjoy imagining what the future will be like for all sorts of things: transportation, energy, architecture, space exploration, and the everyday chores of life. Perhaps it is my lifelong interest in science fiction, or perhaps I just want … Continue reading →

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