http://svprojectmanagement.com/pssst-how-to-keep-your-international-team-together Project management wisdom from practictioners and the UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:47:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://svprojectmanagement.com/pssst-how-to-keep-your-international-team-together/comment-page-1#comment-1207 TheUnknownPM Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:06:12 +0000 http://svprojectmanagement.com/2008/04/16/pssst-how-to-keep-your-international-team-together/#comment-1207 Yeah you are spot on Kimberly. Companies are so paranoid about security leaks when the much more practical and common risk is that the project suffers from lack or communication or lacks buzz for selling. We all only wish we had something everyone wanted to steal or destroy! Given the relative risk, companies should focus heavily on good team communication and resulting speed to market and leave some of the security paranoia behind or at least get a good bot for that and stop forbidding people the right tools (a bot would be a "software patrolling robot" for your chatroom, yes you can automate much of your security). Yeah you are spot on Kimberly. Companies are so paranoid about security leaks when the much more practical and common risk is that the project suffers from lack or communication or lacks buzz for selling. We all only wish we had something everyone wanted to steal or destroy! Given the relative risk, companies should focus heavily on good team communication and resulting speed to market and leave some of the security paranoia behind or at least get a good bot for that and stop forbidding people the right tools (a bot would be a “software patrolling robot” for your chatroom, yes you can automate much of your security).

]]> http://svprojectmanagement.com/pssst-how-to-keep-your-international-team-together/comment-page-1#comment-1204 kwiefling Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:31:27 +0000 http://svprojectmanagement.com/2008/04/16/pssst-how-to-keep-your-international-team-together/#comment-1204 Absolutely right! Having a common workspace is vital to a virtual team working through issues together. Unfortunately some teams, even in well-established companies, don't even have a shared file folder that everyone can access around the world. The reason? Oh, it could be a security risk! Yah, the biggest risk is that they team might actually be able to collaborate effectively! Sheesh! Let's make common sense common practice and start using the tools that we need to work virtually. - Kimberly Wiefling, Author, Scrappy Project Management Absolutely right! Having a common workspace is vital to a virtual team working through issues together. Unfortunately some teams, even in well-established companies, don’t even have a shared file folder that everyone can access around the world. The reason? Oh, it could be a security risk! Yah, the biggest risk is that they team might actually be able to collaborate effectively! Sheesh! Let’s make common sense common practice and start using the tools that we need to work virtually. – Kimberly Wiefling, Author, Scrappy Project Management

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