Systems Development by Virtual Project Teams

basis\nAdvances in Internet technologies cede brought changes to our everyday life and sprainplace. Our withdraw for collaboration via Internet eer grows; new tools emerge to splice us in kindly networks and support the development of online distributed communities (Haste 2001; Schrage, 1990). world experienceable and competent in technology usage has contract a must for around professional organizations. During their interaction with these technologies, users pass along thousands of hours analyzing new situations, interacting with characters they do non really know, and solving problems right away and independently (Beck & Wade, 2004), while growth problem solving and collaboration skills (Reich, 1992). It is claimed that online communications facilitate groups of tribe coming together oer the network to discuss each issue imaginable, to ask questions and manage provocative insights to which others can oppose (Lessig, 2001). These online social environments can c reate mentally into online learning communities when they foster participants to actively engage in overlap ideas and knowledge with others (Gibson, Aldrich & Prensky, 2006). In these online communities knowledge is generated by social interaction, through which we gradually accumulate mature levels of knowing, according to theories derived from Dewey and Vygotsky (Anderson & Kanuka, 1998).\nMoreover, Information and confabulation Technologies (ICT) have allowed the evolution of traditionally organized firms to networked firms where work is performed by virtual(prenominal) teams (Jarvenpaa & Leidner, 1999). Over the years, team-based work units have become progressively more prevalent and thither has been an emphasis on distributed virtual teams (Bell & Kozlowski, 2002). Virtual teams are groups of geographically and/or organizationally dust co-workers that are assembled using a combination of telecommunications and information technologies to process an organizationa...