Role of Project Management in Virtual Teams Success

TL;DR

This paper explores how effective project management skills are crucial for overcoming challenges in virtual teams, ultimately contributing to their success in a globalized work environment.

Contribution

It highlights the importance of project management skills in virtual teams and compares traditional and virtual team success factors through survey analysis.

Findings

Effective project management skills improve virtual team success

Cultural, time zone, and communication challenges can be mitigated

Survey results show key success factors differ between traditional and virtual teams

Abstract

A virtual team is a group of geographically distant people who work together to achieve a shared goal for a common organization. From the past few years this concept has been evolved and has emerged the idea of global project management. Virtual teams have been beneficial in cost reduction; hiring competent work force and improving globalization. Although virtual teams are beneficial for an organization; but they are hard to manage and control successfully. There can be several challenges like cultural issues; different time zones and communication gap. These challenges are not hard to manage; and we can overcome these challenges using effective project management skills. These skills will become the success factors for making virtual teams successful and will be determined by comparison of the survey results of traditional and virtual teams.