Chapter 12Managing Multisite Projects

Your project is bigger than seven or eight people all sitting together. In fact, you’re managing several teams in several locations. Those locations could be as varied as down the hall, on different floors, in different buildings within a few miles of each other, or in multiple countries with multiple time zones and multiple cultures. Welcome to the world of geographically distributed projects: multisite projects.

Once your project has more than one site, the communication alone makes the project much more complex. And the more global your project is, the harder it is. Not only are the time zones different, but the culture for each team is different.

You might not have a global project. You might be ...

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