Virtual Team set up Archives

Several years now after the enforced remote and virtual team work of the COVID years and returning to the podcast after a few years break I want to think about what we have learned. Are we better than we were before or are we just doing remote work more. All in all I believe things have drifted back to more or less where we were before COVID, yes, we are talking on Teams and Zoom more than we were on the virtual platforms available before COVID, BUT, we still have not really embedded the value of remote work into our workflows. Teams are still encouraged to work colocated, travel is if anything even harder to get approved, and remote work is seen as much as a lifestyle enabler, which is wonderful, as it is a way to improve the overall outcomes in workplaces and projects. Now that I am back at least, I will try to dig a bit deeper into some of the ways the workplace continues to evolve in future episodes of the podcast. The post Back after an extended break – what have we learned? appeared first on ULFIRE.

How do a team of people who are used to seeing each other daily in an office environment maintain their engagement with each other and the organisation when they are suddenly separated. The post Virtual teams during viral separation part 2 – engagement appeared first on ULFIRE.

After a number of years of quiet we are starting to see the new wave of resources projects initiated. Now is the time to ensure personnel leading and within these new projects learn from the past and prepare for the future, yet much of the in house corporate knowledge that would have supported this in the past has been lost in the past half decade. Project teams need to find ways to rebuild their knowledge base around collaborative, virtual team projects to have successful futures. The post Advice for the new wave of resource projects appeared first on ULFIRE.

As part of the short series looking at complexity in project virtual teams we are looking at structural complexity, how it is defined, what makes a project structurally complex and how that structural complexity contributes to or is influenced by having project virtual teams as part of the project make up. The post Structural complexity and project virtual teams appeared first on ULFIRE.

Understanding why your project is adopting an international execution strategy is an important step in planning your project. There are a number of reasons modern project may or may not go international, they will all have a large influence on the way the project is run and its potential risk profile. This article considers five of the major reasons that will influence the decision. The post The Good and Bad of International Project Teams appeared first on ULFIRE.