1.3 SUMMARY

A virtual team provides a cost-effective and efficient organizational entity that would facilitate the achievement of better business results through managing by projects. The major advantage of a virtual team is that the team is not physically bounded, and it can be formed very quickly. The disadvantage is that, because the team might span multiple cultural and language boundaries, project procedures must provide guidelines so that the resulting diversity will become an asset and not a liability.

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