Understanding Decision-Making within Distributed Project Teams

Introduction

The evolution toward distributed project management drives the need for improved processes, methods, and tools to input and share common data. The need applies across the project life cycle and among all or selected elements of the team. In our global economy, there's a growing need to decrease the time it takes to make an informed decision, to improve the team's decision velocity.

Nidiffer and Dolan (2005)

This scientific report describes a study with multiple components that our research team carried out, starting in 2006, on the topic of decision making in the context of dispersed project teams. This project represented an opportunity to explore a topic (decision making) that has not been studied much in the field of project ...