Systems Development by Virtual Project Teams

Introduction\nAdvances in internet technologies have brought changes to our everyday tone and produceplace. Our need for collaboration via meshwork constantly grows; new tools come out of the closet to connect us in affectionate networks and support the ontogenesis of online distributed communities (Haste 2001; Schrage, 1990). Being knowledgeable and adequate in technology utilization has compose a essential for most professional organizations. During their fundamental interaction with these technologies, users spend thousands of hours analyzing new situations, interacting with characters they do not really know, and resolve problems quickly and independently (Beck & Wade, 2004), eyepatch developing problem solving and collaboration skills (Reich, 1992). It is claimed that online communications help groups of people coming unitedly over the network to cover any issue imaginable, to hold questions and sh be provocative insights to which others asshole respond (Lessig, 2001). These online social environments bear evolve into online learning communities when they nurse participants to actively engage in sharing ideas and knowledge with others (Gibson, Aldrich & Prensky, 2006). In these online communities knowledge is generated through social interaction, through which we gradually store advanced levels of knowing, according to theories derived from Dewey and Vygotsky (Anderson & Kanuka, 1998).\nMoreover, cultivation and Communication Technologies (ICT) have allowed the phylogenesis of traditionally organized firms to networked firms where work is performed by virtual teams (Jarvenpaa & Leidner, 1999). everywhere the years, team-based work units have become increasingly more prevailing and there has been an emphasis on distributed virtual teams (Bell & Kozlowski, 2002). Virtual teams are groups of geographically and/or organizationally dispersed co-workers that are assembled utilize a combination of telecommunications and knowledge technolo gies to accomplish an organizationa...