Systems Development by Virtual Project Teams

Introduction\nAdvances in cyberspace technologies have brought changes to our everyday emotional state and dallyplace. Our need for collaboration via net constantly grows; new tools place to connect us in companionable networks and support the learning of online distributed communities (Haste 2001; Schrage, 1990). Being knowledgeable and fit in technology habitude has fit a must(prenominal) for most professional organizations. During their interaction with these technologies, users spend thousands of hours analyzing new situations, interacting with characters they do not really know, and firmness of purpose problems quickly and independently (Beck & Wade, 2004), dapple developing problem answer and collaboration skills (Reich, 1992). It is claimed that online communications despatch groups of people coming unitedly over the network to talk about any issue imaginable, to accept questions and sh are provocative insights to which others plenty respond (Lessig, 2001). These online social environments lowlife evolve into online learning communities when they advance 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 hive away advanced levels of knowing, according to theories derived from Dewey and Vygotsky (Anderson & Kanuka, 1998).\nMoreover, training and Communication Technologies (ICT) have allowed the developing of traditionally organized firms to networked firms where work is performed by virtual teams (Jarvenpaa & Leidner, 1999). oer 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 employ a combination of telecommunications and discipline technologies to ac complish an organizationa...