101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them

39. How can I manage and build teamwork on a project team that includes geographically remote contributors?

Increasingly today, your project team is likely to be scattered far and wide. Establishing the trust and camaraderie that a high-performing team depends upon is most difficult when people are not located together, but there are things you can do to help through team building, maintaining good relationships, and avoiding favoritism.

Establishing Relationships

Nothing works better for team building than coming face-to-face, so if at all possible find a way to bring people physically together, at least briefly near the beginning of each project. The most common justification used to do this is a project start-up or launch meeting, as discussed ...