Global Project Management: Communication, Collaboration And Management Across Borders

摘要

For project professionals working on virtual or geographically dispersed projects, Global Project Managementby Jean Binder will be a valuable reference. It could serve as a textbook for universities that offer programs in project management and wish to or have a course on the virtual and global environment. Much of today's project work is done working with teams that may never meet face to face on a project. If the team has the luxury of a face-to-face meeting, typically it is held as a kick-off meeting and not as a routine way of working. After an interesting introduction describing projects as traditional, distributed, international, and virtual, this book is organized in an easy-to-read fashion, following the Global Project Management Framework developed by the author. This framework has five areas: global teams, global communications, global organizations, collaborative tools, and collaborativerntechniques. The book includes five chapters for each area. Binder emphasizes that a critical factor is the challenges of international, distributed, and virtual projects because so many of them are global projects. This means it is also necessary to consider the number of different locations, organizations, cultures, languages, and time zones involved in a project because, as noted by his framework, project managers then have different requirements to consider, and as he says, "there are no universal answers" (p. 10).