5 Practical Tips on Making Virtual Collaboration Efficient

My post about The Secret Ingredients of a Successful Distributed Team turned out to be quite popular, so I decided to follow up on it by sharing a slide deck I recently presented to the Information Management Forum members (IMF). I was invited to speak about virtual teams, as well as how companies can easily overcome challenges connected with their set up. The presentation has 5 practical tips on how to make your virtual project team more efficient. The list is not complete, and there’s always room for more! I hope to extend this list in a future post with your help.

Easy and Effective Remote Collaboration

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What secrets of organizing a successful virtual team can you share? Please comment on this post.

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Comments (5)

• Ken Brenson, Tuesday, 25 January, 2011
  Excellent presentation! Simple and clear. I'm trying to learn more about this topic, as it looks like soon I'm gonna be managing a distributed team myself.
• Valeria Kokina, Thursday, 27 January, 2011
  Agree with Ken. Good job. In our company, Ainstainer Group, we work only with distributed teams. Actually, we create and support them on our customer's behalf. The team is located in Ukraine, our clients - worldwide.
  
  What we do in our company :
  1. permanent communication (skype, calls, facebook, linkedin, e-mails)
  2. on-line software to control in real time workload, tasks, the progress of them etc., wiki and a lot of other.
  
  In addition to that we use Scrum framework. It makes our work more transparent and helps to reach the overall understanding and prevent our teams from pitfalls.
• Raycollins, Thursday, 27 January, 2011
  Hello Andrew ,
  
  Really very nice post, every Projects should have virtual collaboration, so that it will helps to collaborate multiple projects so we can have cost efficient work and effective projects results.
  
  
• Anthony Wong, Sunday, 13 February, 2011
  Very good slides. We use bug tracking software to keep track of customer requirements, features and software bugs, and make sure every issue is properly prioritized and assigned to a developer. Our rule is every issue must be recorded in the issue tracking system. This is to ensure a common understanding in the team and no issue will get missed. This is essential to any software team but just much much more important for virtual teams.
• Laura De La Cruz, Sunday, 27 February, 2011
  Hi Andrew - I am an Independent Director with Scentsy Wickless Candles (www.crazyforscents.com) and have team members as far as Montana (I'm in El Paso, Texas). I was looking for ideas and suggestions on team leading from a distance and found your presentation! It was extremely informative and helpful. Thanks for posting this - I am seriously considering a blog now in hopes that it can meet the needs of my team.
  Laura