Radical Project Management

Virtual Teams

Sometime in the mid-1980s, the type of project team that our group had become used to quietly disappeared. It was replaced by a new form of team that has become the norm for most of the business and IT project teams that we now work with: the virtual team.

The project team in which I learned about teams was formed in 1972. The key members of the team stayed together as a team from 1972 to 1979. We undertook numerous projects and we learned together from each project. We also shared many workshops on building better interpersonal and team processes, as well as the usual technical skill education.

We learned, through a combination of often bitter experience and external facilitation, how to accept the weaknesses of each team member ...