Project Teams: Profiles and Member Perceptions - Implications for Group Support System Research and Products

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  • Susan T. Kinney
  • Raymond R. Panko
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This paper reports on a series of questionnaire surveys in which I65 managers and professionals each described a single recent project. Project team size varied considerably, with a mean of 7.7 members. Team size usually was selected to get the right mix of expertise, to have someone@om each aflected unit, or both. Most teams met many times, with a mean of 16.5 meetings and a median of IO. The mean project duration was 6. I months. During that time, respondents engaged in an average of more than one project communication per working day; only 18% of these communications were in formal team meetings. A4ore than half the projects had at least one member from another site, and 29% had half or more of their members from other sites. So project teams to&y are already characterized by a good deal of distributed work Respondents were familiar with the large majority of their team members before the project started Satisfaction was high on a number of dimensions. Most projects seemed to involve complex design processes rather than a single decision. We discuss the importance of supporting distributed project teams and some implications for the design of group support system research andproducts.

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تاریخ انتشار 1996