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490 Wk 7 DQ2 . 100-150 WORDS

Some members of the IT project team have been asked to work remotely. Discuss how you will handle the obstacles associated with the possible disparity of the team not working together in one location during the IT project life cycle.

REPLIES. 75-100 WORDS

A Rakesh Gurmel

If you go a few years back, thinking working from home was never an option. Still, today we have technology that supports working from home, enabling remote office environments for many today. Looking into project management and working remotely, almost 95% of project tasks can be accomplished remotely. In today's day and age, most application developers are in different geo locations and timezone.  Managing projects with teams at different timezone and bringing them to the meeting is becoming more accessible and manageable. The project team can maintain customer collaboration, document management, coding, and project management. Today the entire project team can address project management from a single SAAS application.

B Francheska Janosik

I currently do this actually, I work remote 3 of 5 days and it can be challenging. One thing that is big for us to do is have weekly team meetings, which are done through zoom. Having this meeting lets the team go over a lot of group tasks and helps for them to make sure that they are all on the same track. We also schedule a bi-weekly sit down with our manager to get that one on one time with him so we don't lose the personal touch that comes with working in the office. This way our boss can get to know us and we can get to know him and build that working repour. For work we have a share drive on our company network that allows us to share documents and have living documents that can be used by the whole team at any time.

C Jarrod Henderson

Well this question is definitely easier to answer since we have gone through the pandemic. At my company since we are already a Google shop it was easy for us to remain somewhat connected form a distance through Google Meet and Chat. This aided us dramatically with keeping up with projects that were already in progress prior to going to a more remote friendly environment. Our application development team was already working a hybrid schedule prior to the pandemic. More and more companies have begun moving into the hybrid workspace since then, they do have obstacles such as measurable data of work accomplished depending on the job in question. What I mean by this is if you have a programmer then you can see measurable data on things like code commits. While a network administrator may not make changes daily or even weekly. This will always raise eyebrows of are they actually working while they are not in the office.