Tips for Virtual Teams Virtual teams are the natural result of the pressures of the modern marketplace and the advances in technology. Traditional teams included members who worked for the same organization, often in the same physical space.
Virtual teams can collaborate from anywhere at any time across several different organizations.
The concept of virtual implies open boundaries, project teams that rapidly form, reorganize, and dissolve as the needs of the marketplace, change and individuals with differing competencies who are located across time, space and cultures. As companies expand globally, face compressed timelines in product development, and use more foreign based subcontracted labor, virtual teams promise flexibility, responsiveness, lower costs and improved resource use. Give team members a sense of the big picture. Send team members copies of the updated project schedule or provide an electronic view of the project schedule using the Internet. Establish a code of conduct to avoid delays.