The Remote Project Manager

The times when a project team were all located together in the same office are fast disappearing and increasingly project managers are being asked to organise disparate groups in many different locations across the world. Language and cultural differences as well as limitations with technology and communications make each assignment a unique challenge. This can result in a host of new demands on project managers that barely existed as little as ten years ago.....as if the job wasn't difficult enough already!! While home working and remote working aren't necessarily the same thing, surveys indicate that the incidence of home working is increasing exponentially. A 2016 study conducted by Vodafone involving 8,000 global employees and employers found that three-quarters of companies worldwide had already switched to more flexible working practices. 61% believe that it had increased the company's profits and 83% reported a boost in productivity. Faster and cheaper internet access and the exponential growth of the cloud is making the world ever smaller. Companies who need to source scarce skills that they can't find locally are now finding that they can easily tap into a much larger pool of highly skilled resource world-wide. The world's most valuable resource is knowledge and the market for services and skills is becoming truly global. In a crowded world, limiting migration is being seen as a political priority for a growing number of governments and in this environment the trend towards employing off-shore expertise is only likely to grow. Many of the approaches that the best project managers use are far more difficult to deploy in an environment where often they're a disembodied voice in a conference call. Eye contact, body language and the feedback you gain from being in close proximity is lost. More than that, chasing people down for a brief discussion gets trickier. Informality becomes more difficult to achieve and it gets a whole lot harder to pick up on the mood of both individuals and the wider organisation. This is an environment that amplifies the potential for misunderstandings and mistrust. The term 'remote' is true on so many levels.Remote project management is already with us and is growing rapidly. It's increasingly going to be the way that project management functions in the future. This book aims to provide you with the skills to prosper in this new paradigm as well as looking at the technology available to support remote working - videoconference, instant messaging, e-mail, shared storage, collaboration and project management software and making recommendations for finding your way through this maze of hundreds of products and selecting the best of breed.

Author: Gren Gale

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: Jul 02, 2019

Number of Pages: 161 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1099908078

ISBN-13: 9781099908071