Comments on: What Does It Take to Run a Virtual Team?

By: What Does It Take to Run a Virtual Team? (Redux) « ANDYWERGEDAL

What Does It Take to Run a Virtual Team? (Redux) « ANDYWERGEDAL — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:22:31 +0000

[...] August, I blogged about how my business partner and I were working through some processes to improve the way my virtual company works. We’ve continued to refine and improve those processes, so I thought I would write an update to [...]

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By: What Does It Take to Run a Virtual Team? (Redux)

What Does It Take to Run a Virtual Team? (Redux) — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:01:59 +0000

[...] 0 Last August, I blogged about how my business partner and I were working through some processes to improve the way my virtual company works. We’ve continued to refine and improve those processes, so I thought I would write an update [...]

By: Tim Nixon

Tim Nixon — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:13:21 +0000

I'm glad to see you added backup into the mix. I'm currently trialing SugarSync and I'm very, very impressed so far. I could see this as becoming a type of collaboration tool especially as you can rollback to up to 5 previous versions of a file. Plus if two people open the same doc, SugarSync will save a new version tagged with the users name, so no real concern of overwriting. My major concern at the moment is if SygarSync will work behind my clients corporate firewall. It seems for it to work properly an app must be installed on the local machine. I currently use a VPN connection to manage files on and off the clients server. I don't think my clients IT department is going to entertain the idea of installing an app just for me on their server.

By: Sibilla

Sibilla — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:29:17 +0000

Hello, my name is Sibilla and I am a DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) student from Germany. My thesis is going to be about virtual teams…but the exact issue/ topic is still unclear. Since a DBA is a practitioners Doctor my topic should be of very high interest to the “real business world”. Therefore, I think this is exact the right place to ask all of you: Can you think of a topic within the area of Virtual Teams that is of high interest to industry and needs further reseach???

About any kind of ideas/ support/ help or even an offer for a cooperation* would be of high interest to me!

*cooperation: You have a virtual team that runs a project shortly? Or a problem in a Virtual team and you want an analysis to find a solution? From these information I can create a case study for my thesis and you will get the results/ outcome of it!

Thanks in advance, Sibilla

By: Sibilla

Sibilla — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:42:37 +0000

Hello, my name is Sibilla and I am a DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) student from Germany. My thesis is going to be about virtual teams...but the exact issue/ topic is still unclear. Since a DBA is a practitioners Doctor my topic should be of very high interest to the "real business world". Therefore, I think this is exact the right place to ask all of you: Can you think of a topic within the area of Virtual Teams that is of high interest to industry and needs further reseach???

About any kind of ideas/ support/ help or even an offer for a cooperation* would be of high interest to me!

Thanks in advance, Sibilla

By: BK

BK — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:20:19 +0000

You can group the tools into two areas:
1) Those that are good for inside the same company (employees using the same set of tools).
2) Virtual teams that form and disburse often (like a team of independant contractors or freelancers)

If you are among a group of freelancers, trying to get everyone to switch to your favorite collaboration tools is not easy. That’s why I think the list needs to be based on tools that everyone has easy access to, and may already be using. Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Skype are great examples. Almost everyone uses those. Basecamp is popular too, but may not be the preferred mode of operation for some. I like the list of tools that found at Automate My Small Business has.

If you find freelancers on oDesk.com a lot, you can use the time tracking application built in. A great way to “watch” screenshots of your hired team members.

By: gantt chart

gantt chart — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:47:39 +0000

Good article, It would be more appreciated to me if the chart or the head of the arrow will point to the same way.

By: Sergio

Sergio — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:30:00 +0000

I agree that all this features are needed for virtual teams. Personally, I tried to reduce synchronic communications (like conference calls) as much as possible in a project. But a daily scrum chat is a must. However, I do not agree about using all this much services. I agree to search for the "best of breed" tools in each area. But you need to centralize your communication, to be able to search for a team message in just one place. For this I recommend project tools like Assembla. They solve most of the issues and for the rest they provide ways to integrate them. Specially, allowing remote tools to be feed and to feed events to the system. I use Assembla as my main collaboration tool and as an EVENT HUB for all my tools.

By: SugarSync and Your Virtual Team

SugarSync and Your Virtual Team — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:14:53 +0000

[...] speaking with the CEO of SugarSync, I quickly realized that my post about running a virtual team was missing a critical component: backup. As I listened to the company’s presentation of its [...]

By: Bruce McGraw

Bruce McGraw — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:28:21 +0000

Good Post!! I am very involved in managing virtual teams myself and find the dialog and sharing helpful. I worte a post on the subject also which has some different ideas….

http://fearnoproject.com/2009/07/24/collaboration-tools-for-virtual-project-teams/

Enjoy.
Bruce

By: Pankaj

Pankaj — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:33:01 +0000

Great article. Great conceptualization of what virtual teams need for work. We have been laying great emphasis on the need for “integrated solutions” – which cater to most of the productivity needs which exist in an organization, rather than opting for multiple tools. Apart from convenience, synergies can also be harnessed when data can freely flow between different tools.

The biggies also seem to be following this philosophy – Google Apps integrates email and collaboration. Microsoft BPOS integrates email, collaboration and conferencing. We also tout the integratedness of our suite as it integrates email, collaboration and online meetings.

By: Jen Udan

Jen Udan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:30:19 +0000

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By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:31:30 +0000

I’m glad you found 5pm useful.

About demos – we use here GotToMeeting. Works great, though the pricing is not flexible. Skype recently released the screen sharing feature – you may want to try it.

By: LimeSpace – IT » Links der Woche im Regen

LimeSpace – IT » Links der Woche im Regen — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:26:21 +0000

[...] Webworker Daily gibt Ratschläge zum “betreiben” eines virtuellen Teams, was aus meiner Sicht auch wirklich oft ein großes Problem ist. [...]

By: John

John — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:07:22 +0000

We rely heavily on Skype and GoToMeeting for conferencing with team members and customers. Especially Skype. Without it we'd be stuck with Instant Messenger. But for all of our time tracking, task management, and project management, we use on app called Intervals.