Case study: a virtual group at Telcordia

Author

Fields, Derek ; Miller, Ed

Author_Institution

Telcordia Technol. Inc., Piscataway, NJ, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

14

Abstract

Experiences of running a virtual group, in part, for well over one year and completely for over 6 months are described. The group is performing the same set of tasks now that it used to perform when all of the members of the group were co-located. These tasks include running large technical meetings with many participants, investigating emerging technologies and making architectural recommendations company wide, negotiating vendor contracts, providing internal talks within the company on computing technologies, working with applied research, and managing the activities of the group. Insights into technical, psychological, financial/business and emotional considerations are shared

Keywords

business data processing; groupware; human factors; social aspects of automation; Telcordia; company; emotional issues; financial issues; psychological issues; technical meetings; vendor contracts; virtual business; virtual group; Collaborative work; Companies; Computer aided software engineering; Contracts; Meetings; Programming; Psychology; Technology management; Virtual environment; Virtual groups;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Research Challenges, 2000. Proceedings. Academia/Industry Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Buffalo, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0628-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AIWORC.2000.843265

Filename

843265