Title: Virtual project management: introduction

Authors: Christian Leuthold; Charles Huber; Adrian Plüss

Addresses: Institute for Business Engineering, University of Applied Science Northwestern Switzerland, Steinackerstrasse 5, 5210 Windisch, Switzerland. ' Institute for Business Engineering, University of Applied Science Northwestern Switzerland, Steinackerstrasse 5, 5210 Windisch, Switzerland. ' Institute for Business Engineering, University of Applied Science Northwestern Switzerland, Steinackerstrasse 5, 5210 Windisch, Switzerland

Abstract: This article gives a short introduction into virtual project management and it shows that virtual teams and virtual project management have significant advantages like adding special expertise to a project team even though the expert is not in the same geographic area or drastically reduce of travel time. The major differences between virtual project management and classical project management can be found in the project communication and in project team management. The introduction includes also a short overview of the papers in this special issue.

Keywords: virtual project management; international collaboration; electronic collaboration; online collaboration; virtual collaboration; e-collaboration; online communication; task media fit; virtual teams; project communication; project team management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNVO.2012.045729

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 2012 Vol.10 No.2, pp.109 - 116

Published online: 16 Aug 2014 *

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