PMFORUM Breaking News

An intriguing research project about Virtual Teams is starting currently—online, of course. The goal is to find out how effective teams can work together in virtual worlds and how helpful meetings in virtual worlds can be.

The project of Ralf Friedrich employs the virtual world SecondLife® and other web-meetings. Ralf Friedrich works as a trainer and coach in project management and is lecturer at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. Together with students, he created a virtual working environment.

Teams will be grouped together, guided into the functionalities and given a task. The team members will have to work together on the task. This control group experiment is rather fascinating. Volunteers who like to find out more about working in virtual teams are still welcome and can check in under www.gepros.com/vtr.

The research project covers 12 weeks and the timely effort for volunteers will be 5 hours weekly. Participants who are PMI® - certified Projekt managers (PMP®'s) can receive up to 60 PDU's for participation and to meet the requirements for PMP®-recertification. There is no charge or cost to participation, other than the commitment of time.

For more information, contact Isabell Schmidtke at isabell.schmidtke@gepros.com.