The project management paradigm has been shifting in recent years away from a top down view of how projects are managed toward a more collaborative model. And, in many cases, task interdependence and member distribution across time, space, and technology make high degrees of collaboration necessary to accomplish project work.
Adequate and timely sharing of information and knowledge in all directions, proactive change management, and process monitoring are some of the important factors required for successful project collaboration. Today, many vendors offer solutions that promote inter-member communication in distributed (”virtual”) projects where contributors may lack (or may not need) face-to-face interactions. See reference 1 for a detailed discussion of collaborative project management architectures.
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