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Patterns of Effective Management of Virtual Projects: An Exploratory Study

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Publication: PM Network
Date: Sunday, January 1 2006
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DEEPAK KHAZANCHI AND ILZE ZIGURS Management of Virtual Projects: An Exploratory Study Project Management Institute, 2005, ISBN: 1930699832. paperback. UO pp., $27.95 Member. $34.95 Nonmember.

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groundbreaking study provides a blueprint of best practices in virtual projects that codifies both theory and practice. Academic readers will appreciate the rigor of the research that investigates and analyzes what it means to be virtual. Project management practitioners will find many useful insights and tips that can be applied directly to project implementation. Addressing matters of project communication, coordination and control, the authors present a typology of lean, hybrid and extreme projects that readers may use to guide their own actions in managing virtual projects to successful conclusions.

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