High versus low performing virtual design teams: a preliminary analysis of communication

Ocker, Rosalie J.; Fjermestad, Jerry

doi:10.1109/hicss.2000.926603

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“…Studies show that successful teams focus: on the task (Hofner, 1996), on structured goals (Huang et al, 2003) and on the development of routine (DeSanctis, Wright & Jiang, 2001). Successful teams also take a lot of time to understand the process and contents of the work (Iacono & Weisband, 1997 ;Ocker & Fjermestad, 2000), especially in the initial stages (Hause et al, 2001). Not only does the medium limit the team's ability to coordinate information (Graetz et al, 1998), virtual teams spend a great deal of time understanding how to execute the task (Lebie, Rhoades & McGrath, 1996), and team meeting that it's members are distant physically take longer time than face-to-face meetings (Siegel et al, 1986).…”

Section: Structural Group Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Computer-Mediated Group Interaction Processes

Shwarts-Asher

Ahituv

Etzion

2009

2009 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems

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The use of computer-mediated groups has become common particularly in international organizations and global companies. In light of this growing phenomenon, the traditional group interaction should be re-observed. The research questions deal with the interaction between the computer-mediated group members, trying to figure whether (and how) the media change the way people interact, in hope of improving the group interaction using group structure. Based on Bales' IPA model we present an experiment in which subjects, who were grouped, had to share information in order to complete an intellective task. The findings indicate that the positive level of the computermediated unstructured group discussions is significantly lower than the positive level of the faceto-face unstructured group discussions. The structure seem to act as a partial solution, since structured group discussions is positive than unstructured group discussions.Therefore, structure should be manipulated in order to reduce the virtuallity influence on the positive level of the discussion. The importance of the theoretical and practical implementation of the research is obvious and will be discussed.International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems 978-0-7695-3575-3/09 $25.00

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Section: Structural Group Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Computer-Mediated Group Interaction Processes

Shwarts-Asher

Ahituv

Etzion

2009

2009 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems

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“…As a result, large projects require a high degree of knowledge integration and the coordinated eVorts of multiple developers [9]. More eVort is required for interaction when participants are distant and unfamiliar with each other's work [19,46,52]. The additional eVort required for distributed work often translates into delays in software release compared to traditional face-to-face teams [28,42] and may ultimately result in an ineVective team [5,10,31,34].…”

Section: The Challenges Of Distributed Software Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Self-organization of teams for free/libre open source software development

Crowston

Wei

et al. 2007

Information and Software Technology

164

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“…A characteristic of many high-tech projects team is that very often they are virtual teams, spread on different locations, often on different continents and time zones. This creates specific challenges and needs for particular abilities [15]- [17] Looking from the perspective of particular characteristics, on competence we have to underline two important aspects:…”

Section: Successful High-tech Team Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

University role in the development of future high-tech engineers

Ilas

2010

2010 IEEE 16th International Symposium for Design and Technology in Electronic Packaging (SIITME)

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University education shapes the profile of the future engineers. Although generally the curriculum focuses mostly on teaching the technical knowledge, other skills should also be developed/ encouraged -either in a planned manner, or at least implicitly. Regarding the technical knowledge, there is much debate on whether the University should focus on fundamental knowledge or detailed specialization, or on specific areas, tailored to major employers needs.Therefore, this study aims to presenting the particular needs of today's high-tech companies present on the Romanian market, as well as some very concrete ways in which technical Universities could also contribute in developing the future engineers' nontechnical skills and competencies, as demanded by modern hightech projects. The findings and recommendations given in this paper are mainly based on the author's extensive expertise, gathered over the last 15 years, both as member of academia and through close collaborations and discussions with engineers/ managers at all levels from several multinationals, as well as SMEs in high-tech industry in Romania, the UK, Germany, USA.

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High versus low performing virtual design teams: a preliminary analysis of communication

Cited by 24 publications

References 12 publications

Computer-Mediated Group Interaction Processes

Computer-Mediated Group Interaction Processes

Self-organization of teams for free/libre open source software development

University role in the development of future high-tech engineers

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