Comments on: Project Management: Keys to managing a Virtual or remote project team

By: William Signer

William Signer — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 07:33:46 +0000

Communication is though an important aspect but isn’t it great if everyone is aware of the conversation and everyone related to the job is in the loop, where tracking back the code is feasible. I think using an efficient PM tool will serve the purpose. I found BootStrapToday, http://www.bootstraptoday very useful in this. managing remote team seems very easy and transparent in it apart from it our s/w development team has benefited in terms of saving time and cost doing certain jobs like tracking and fixing bugs etc.

By: Terry B.

Terry B. — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:21:42 +0000

Great post Bruce, you have a very good insight about managing virtual teams. Managing virtual team is a great way to cut cost and go green. In order to manage virtual team you will need the right online tools and resources that will help you run your business to progress. Communications is also one of the key to virtual team. There are also different communication tools that can be use like Skype. Google Docs is also a tool that is very useful to virtual teams which allows you to share and manage documents, presentations, surveys, and spread sheets easily. I also found this article that discusses more information about managing remote teams and some alternative tools. Using these tools it can help you improve productivity, collaboration, project management and team communication.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:43:51 +0000

I totally agree with Bruce that communication is one of the key if not the most important factor to a project management success. As a project manager, I constantly communicate with all my virtual team members through Skype. As for documents or files sharing, I use Dropbox because it is so convenient and it can be accessed across different platform such as PC, Mac, iPad and iPhone.

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By: Mikw

Mikw — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:48:40 +0000

Hi Bruce, nice to read your thoughts on remotely managing project team. I agree with you, freedom of working remotely has benefits of its own, it proves really helpful to continue smooth operations even if you are away from work place. You need to provide special attention to communication, planning and real time reporting for better coordination among virtual team members. We use Microsoft project manager software i.e. Project Professional 2010 for this purpose; it has excellent collaboration and reporting features. Thanks for sharing different resources on virtual team.

By: Salman

Salman — Sat, 07 May 2011 13:14:54 +0000

Thanks for a great and useful article!

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