IT project management and virtual teams
Proceedings of the 2004 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Careers, culture, and ethics in a networked environment
Optimized software process for fault handling in global software development
ICSP'08 Proceedings of the Software process, 2008 international conference on Making globally distributed software development a success story
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Fundamentals of project management are changing by globalization of markets, mergers of international companies, and integration of managerial and business processes in global corporations. A clearly recognizable trend in multinational companies since the mid-1980s has been globalization of R&D and competence portfolios. Applied development is usually conducted in form of a distributed project organization. A project team is formed across geographical, organizational, and cultural boundaries, engaging in a project with a global focus. Although a multinational project organization has great potential in many dimensions, there is no doubt that the execution of a distributed high technological project is still a great challenge. This paper identifies prerequisite for further improvement in the management of distributed projects with global goals. The authors have focused on the practical experiences of the execution of complex multinational dispersed projects in the area of applied system development in power industry.