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by doug22

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This is my first assignment providing project management to a virtual team. Some team members are located in other countries. Currently, they are teleconferenced in on meetings, receive status reports, access to team documents, and ongoing check-in telephone calls. The issue is that some of those team members are requesting on-site PM attention. Any idea on how to justify frequent travel to support these members. Thanks.

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by sridharpandu

I had a siilar situation when I was doing a Euro conversion project for a bank in brussels, Project boards and the management do not normally approve frequesnt travel, but if the project manager has exceptional convincing abilities he/she might be able to pull it off.

However I got over this by stationing a fairly senior member of the project who essentially was a self starter, at brussels. This way I got to retain Project Management Control but still managed to network my teams. Ideally the person whom you station at other locations should have worked with you long enough so that he has confidence in your ability to lead and so shares your vision.

by doug22

Stationing a senior member is a good suggestion if I can get access to that resource. I'll have to look further into that. Thanks for the comment.

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