101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them

90. How should I manage multi-site decision making?

Involving members of a distributed team in decision making begins with using a well-defined objective process such as that described in Problem 89. It also involves investing the time required to ensure that all who need to be involved take part, regardless of their location, and will accept the decision.

Engaging Stakeholders

For decisions that will affect people who are geographically separated, it can be difficult to identify the people who need to be involved. Once identified, it can also be hard to get them to participate in making the decision. For example, decisions affecting a lot of people across a large program with many distributed project teams can be quite complicated, and they ...