CHAPTER 4

How Distributed Teams Adapt to Decision Making in Practice: Empirical Evidence

At the start of the project, and for a long time, people were hanging on to information like they were afraid of giving it away and losing their authority over their jobs. I spent a lot of time and energy trying to convince them that it was in the project's best interests for them to share their information. The project should be the priority, not local interests. Getting them to accept this vision took time and plenty of communication.

Manager of a distributed project team

4.1 Introduction

Day after day, project team members are required to make all kinds of decisions. These decisions could involve anything from methods and budgets to the team's working ...

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