1. The Management of Distributed Projects J. Roberto Evaristo, Ph.D. Department of Information and Decision Sciences University of Illinois, Chicago Presentation at CRIM meeting March 15, 2001

2. Introduction Background Original Interest: Cross-Cultural Issues in Information Systems Most such situations were also distributed in nature.

3. Project Management Typology

4. Evolution of Project Forms

5. Some findings: Trust in virtual teams is crucial Meetings planned with or without an established agenda Effect of the structure of the project on the virtual interaction Role of technology

6. Research Projects Applied Research –VTC- Virtual Team Configurator. Part of the “Business Architect Project”, an EU-sponsored project. –Management of Distributed Acquisition Projects, current application to Department of Defense –"Developing a Methodology for Redesigning Acquisition Processes Based on "Information Load Analysis.“ Dod Grant, FY 2000

7. Research Projects Basic Research –Study of communication and coordination patterns across distributed projects. –Trust creating procedures in distributed projects –Motivation & Feedback issues in distributed projects. –Application: Impacts of such patterns on tools and procedures to manage distributed projects.

8. Framework for Research in Virtual Project Management

9. Typology of Projects Across Organizations

10. Distributedness Dimensions