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Managing Virtual Project Teams

Source: Project Smart: Project Management Articles

January 25th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Professional, Project Management

These are interesting times for managing systems development projects. In the old days (as late as the 1980’s), whenever a development project was initiated, it was necessary to form a project team at a centralised geographical location in order to expedite communications between project members. But now we live in an age of electronic communications that provides greater flexibility in terms of allowing workers to work just about anywhere.   Read More

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