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Update on Whiteboards for Virtual Teams
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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Resolving Disagreements in Virtual Teams
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
Hybrid Meetings
What is a hybrid meeting? It’s a term coined by Commute Zero author Carol to refer to a meeting in which some attendees are face to face in a conference room and others attend remotely, either from home or from … Continue reading
When meeting face to face isn't better
Have you ever done affinity diagramming? That’s the brainstorming exercise in which each participant in a conference room is given a pad of sticky notes and asked to write as many ideas as possible about an issue or solutions to … Continue reading
Multi-Tasking in Project Meetings
In my many years in the technology industry, I’ve spent thousands of hours in meetings, most of them as boring as all get-out. During this time I’ve seen many interesting changes. I’ve seen meeting presentation technology evolve from flip charts … Continue reading
Project Progress Trend Analysis
If you are like most project managers, you wish you had a better real-time handle on the progress of your project so you could predict when you will finish or when a change is needed in order to stay on … Continue reading
Vision and Mission Statements Revisited
I’m sure you have had a chance to write a vision or mission statement at one time or another in your career. In my 25 years in high-tech corporate life, I’ve seen hundreds. Unfortunately, most of them were poorly written … Continue reading
Communicating Effectively in Virtual Teams: Part 4 of 4
In this final part of my series on communications in virtual teams, I will discuss the most important medium to evolve so far during the computer revolution: e-mail. Pretty much everyone has an e-mail address these days, and many of … Continue reading
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Communicating Effectively in Virtual Teams: Part 3 of 4
In this part of the series on optimizing virtual team communications, I’ll cover Instant Messaging, or IM as it is commonly called. IM has evolved a great deal from the early consumer versions in the mid 90’s. It is now … Continue reading
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Communicating Effectively in Virtual Teams: Part 2 of 4
In part one of this series I talked about the problems with speakerphones in virtual teams. In this installment, I’ll discuss the problems with another type of phone, the Cell. Most modern cell phones have a built-in speakerphone feature, and … Continue reading
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