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Managing Global Projects

22.1 Introduction

With the increasing trend of deploying onsite-offshore teams, most of the projects span across multiple geographies now-a-days. Along with that, the big organizations are becoming truly global through expansion, acquisition and merger by spanning their projects and products across the globe. So, project managers need to handle a team spread across multiple geographies. They need to deal with different cultures, time zones and levels of communication. In this chapter, we will discuss about the framework that is fully responsible in handling truly global projects.

22.2 Why Global Projects Exist?

The following reasons are responsible for the existence of global projects:

  1. Efficient Resourcing: One of ...

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