Title:
Management Framework
for
Globally Distributed Teams in IT Industry
Abstract: Software development is a
highly
creative and collaborative endeavor in which success requires a fine
degree
of coordination between many people from many different disciplines,
often
working across different geographies and time zones and sometimes
across
cultural borders. The goal of such arrangements is to bring together
the
mix of intellectual, technical, and industrial skills and resources
needed
to design, construct, and operate the systems and facilities required
to
solve complex business problems. When implementing software development
in
a global environment, a popular strategy is the establishment of
globally
distributed teams. Project management owes its existence as a
management discipline to the complex,
high technology undertakings. Projects are complex endeavors and
project
outcomes are far from being certain. Software development teams are
plagued
by management problems that result in missed deadlines, budget
overruns,
and canceled projects, and effective management remains an open problem
as
development teams struggle to keep pace with changing technology. The
management
aspect becomes further challenging and complicated while dealing
ethical,
time zone, cross cultural issues inherent to a globally distributed
team.
A pragmatic question is “Does classical project management work for
globally
distributed teams?” Too often the answer is no. In this paper we have
presented
an adept management framework for globally distributed teams.
Author: Suhas Raut