Millennial's Virtual Teamwork and Technical Proficiencies Impact on Project Quality

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Matt Graham ◽  
Harold Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Virtual Teamwork ◽  
Project Quality ◽  
Project Outcomes ◽  
Software Skills ◽  
Technical Proficiency ◽  
The Relationship

The development of information systems continues to be a difficult process that frequently ends in failing to meet the projects goals. The processes involved in developing information systems are now compounded by the use of virtual teams. The goal of this study was to determine whether technical proficiencies, project skills in using database development software and technical skills in using the virtual environment, contributed to higher quality projects. The study attempted to address two hypotheses: 1) that increased proficiency in projects skills (Database Software skills) will contribute to greater project quality and 2) that increased proficiency within the virtual environment will contribute to greater project quality. Findings suggest that technical proficiencies in projects skills do contribute to greater project quality however the technical proficiency in the use of virtual environments does not. The relationship between proficiency in project skills and the quality of project outcomes is weak; suggesting that other variables not investigated in this study may exert a more powerful influence on project outcomes.

Millennial Teamwork and Technical Proficiency's Impact on Virtual Team Effectiveness

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Matt Graham ◽  
Harold Daniel ◽  
Brian Doore
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Database Management ◽  
Team Effectiveness ◽  
Natural Extension ◽  
Virtual Team ◽  
Database Management System ◽  
Technical Proficiency

The successful completion of information systems projects is already a difficult process that many times ends with projects failing to meet the information systems requirements. These requirements typically center on completing projects that perform the way initially envisioned, and delivering completed projects on time and within budget. Pressures around communication and leadership style are now compounded by the use of virtual teams. The goal of this study was to determine whether or not technical proficiency in the project-based skills, facility with database management systems development, and greater technical proficiency in coping within the virtual environment contributed to the development of greater virtual team effectiveness. This study targeted millennial students at the Maine Business School who were assigned to virtual teams tasked with developing a database management system within a virtual environment. Findings suggest that increased proficiencies in project skills will contribute to greater team effectiveness and more importantly, increased proficiencies within the virtual environment will contribute to greater virtual team effectiveness. These findings have implications for business educators and by natural extension, business practitioners as they suggest that training students and workers how to communicate, collaborate, exchange ideas, and share information better within virtual environments will improve virtual team effectiveness which should translate into greater virtual teams project outcomes.

Millennial Teamwork and Technical Proficiency's Impact on Virtual Team Effectiveness

2020 ◽  
pp. 283-303
Author(s):  
C. Matt Graham ◽  
Harold Daniel ◽  
Brian Doore
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Database Management ◽  
Team Effectiveness ◽  
Virtual Team ◽  
Millennial Students ◽  
Technical Proficiency ◽  
Systems Requirements ◽  
Business Practitioners

The successful completion of information systems projects is already a difficult process that many times ends with projects failing to meet the information systems requirements. These requirements typically center on completing projects that perform the way initially envisioned, and delivering completed projects on time and within budget. Pressures around communication and leadership style are now compounded by the use of virtual teams. The goal of this study was to determine whether or not technical proficiency in the project-based skills, facility with database management systems development, and greater technical proficiency in coping within the virtual environment contributed to the development of greater virtual team effectiveness. This study targeted millennial students at the Maine Business School who were assigned to virtual teams tasked with developing a database management system within a virtual environment. Findings suggest that increased proficiencies in project skills will contribute to greater team effectiveness and more importantly, increased proficiencies within the virtual environment will contribute to greater virtual team effectiveness. These findings have implications for business educators and by natural extension, business practitioners as they suggest that training students and workers how to communicate, collaborate, exchange ideas, and share information better within virtual environments will improve virtual team effectiveness which should translate into greater virtual teams project outcomes.

Virtual Teamwork and Commitments Impact on Project Quality

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-58
Author(s):  
Harold Daniel ◽  
Christian Graham ◽  
Brian Doore
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Virtual Team ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Virtual Teamwork ◽  
Project Quality ◽  
Team Projects ◽  
Project Outcome ◽  
Team Project

This article examines how commitment among individuals involved in a short term, virtual team projects influence the quality of the project outcome. Results indicate that forced and habitual commitment types had a negative impact on virtual team project quality but found no evidence of the hypothesized positive influences of affective, normative or economic commitment. Findings suggest that commitment in virtual teams, particularly those virtual teams that engage in short term projects, may not exert the influence observed in co-located teams involved in longer duration projects. Further, forced and habitual commitment may actually be destructive. As such, the findings of this study suggest that for project quality to be achieved, other forces may be necessary.

Promoting Critical Thinking in Virtual Teams

2014 ◽  
pp. 303-326
Author(s):  
Francesco Sofo ◽  
Michelle Sofo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Student Characteristics ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Virtual Teamwork

This chapter aims to raise awareness in leaders and practitioners on how critical thinking is embedded within the performance of virtual teams. The increasingly important nexus between critical thinking and team performance is demonstrated within the specific context of the virtual environment. The chapter is interspersed with brief case studies that demonstrate some of the experiences of Australian-based higher education staff in their efforts to incorporate both critical thinking and virtual teamwork into their pedagogy. A framework of success factors and challenges inherent to virtual teams and critical thinking is provided, which covers five influential factors: technology, student characteristics, educator characteristics, social aspects, and team dynamics. The chapter concludes with some directions for future research.

The Importance of Systems Methodologies for Industrial and Scientific National Wealthy and Development

2012 ◽  
pp. 40-54
Author(s):  
Miroljub Kljajic
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Production Management ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Scientific Databases ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between industrial and scientific knowledge and systems methodologies is discussed in this paper. As the measure of the former on the macro level, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is assumed to be the consequence of systems’ Research and Development (R&D), which is estimated indirectly by the number of articles published in academic journals in the last 40 years. It is assumed that Production, Management and Information Systems (IS) can be considered suitable main representatives of the quality of organizational processes and that GDP is their consequence. In turn, the Systems Approach (SA), Systems Engineering (SE), Operational Research (OR), Information Systems Development (ISD) and Simulation represent the methodology set for coping with organizational complex processes. We looked for the articles containing the aforementioned variables as topic keywords in core scientific databases. Results show a sufficient correlation between the number of publications and the GDP.

Project Quality of Off-Shore Virtual Teams Engaged in Software Requirements Analysis

2009 ◽  
pp. 2115-2136
Author(s):  
Dhruv Nath ◽  
Varadharajan Sridhar ◽  
Monica Adya ◽  
Amit Malik
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Requirements Analysis ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Project Quality ◽  
Analysis Phase ◽  
Emerging Trends

The off-shore software development companies in countries such as India use a global delivery model in which initial requirement analysis phase of software projects get executed at client locations to leverage frequent and deep interaction between user and developer teams. Subsequent phases such as design, coding and testing are completed at off-shore locations. Emerging trends indicate an increasing interest in off-shoring even requirements analysis phase using computer mediated communication. We conducted an exploratory research study involving students from Management Development Institute (MDI), India and Marquette University (MU), U.S.A. to determine quality of such off-shored requirements analysis projects. Our findings suggest that project quality of teams engaged in pure off-shore mode is comparable to that of teams engaged in collocated mode. However, the effect of controls such as user project monitoring on the quality of off-shored projects needs to be studied further.

Project Quality of Off-Shore Virtual Teams Engaged in Software Requirements Analysis

2010 ◽  
pp. 1997-2018
Author(s):  
Dhruv Nath ◽  
Varadharajan Sridhar ◽  
Monica Adya ◽  
Amit Malik
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Requirements Analysis ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Project Quality ◽  
Analysis Phase ◽  
Emerging Trends

The off-shore software development companies in countries such as India use a global delivery model in which initial requirement analysis phase of software projects get executed at client locations to leverage frequent and deep interaction between user and developer teams. Subsequent phases such as design, coding and testing are completed at off-shore locations. Emerging trends indicate an increasing interest in off-shoring even requirements analysis phase using computer mediated communication. We conducted an exploratory research study involving students from Management Development Institute (MDI), India and Marquette University (MU), U.S.A. to determine quality of such off-shored requirements analysis projects. Our findings suggest that project quality of teams engaged in pure off-shore mode is comparable to that of teams engaged in collocated mode. However, the effect of controls such as user project monitoring on the quality of off-shored projects needs to be studied further.

Process-Aware Information Systems for Virtual Teamwork

2005 ◽  
pp. 2314-2320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Schahram Dustdar
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Collaborative Systems ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Work Activities ◽  
Virtual Teamwork ◽  
The Right

The question of the “right” organizational form and the appropriate information systems support remains of paramount importance and still constitutes a challenge for virtually all organizations, regardless of industrial background. Organizations distribute their required work activities among groups of people (teams), with teams constituting the main building block for implementing the work (tasks). In most cases, team members are organized as “virtual (project) teams.” These teams are under heavy pressure to reduce time to market of their products and services and lower their coordination costs. Some characteristics of distributed virtual teams are that team (member) configurations change quite frequently and that team members report to different managers, maybe even in different organizations. From an information systems’ point of view, distributed virtual teams often are self-configuring networks of mobile and “fixed” people, devices, as well as applications. A newly emerging requirement is to facilitate not just mobility of content (i.e., to support a multitude of devices and connectivity modes) to team members, but also to provide contextual information on work activities to all distributed virtual team members (Dustdar, 2002a, 2002b, 2002c). By context, we mean traceable and continuous views of associations (relationships) between artifacts (e.g., documents, database records), resources (e.g., people, roles, skills), and business processes. Context is composed of information on the “who, when, how, and why.” The remainder of this chapter is organized as follows: The next section provides an overview of related work on classification systems of collaborative systems and provides an overview on evaluation aspects of current collaborative systems for virtual teamwork. Section 3 discusses some issues and problems related to the integration of artifacts, resources, and processes. Section 4 presents one proposed solution. Finally, Section 5 discusses some future trends and concludes the chapter.

scholarly journals Correlation Analysis of Quality, Ability and Performance of Information Technology Usage on Registration Section of RSI Siti Rahmah Padang, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-110
Author(s):  
Yanti Desnita Tasri ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
Work Effectiveness ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

Patient care in the registration section of the hospital is a very important activity, because there is a recording of patient data that will be used by other health workers in providing further health care. The use of information technology in the registration section can increase work effectiveness and efficiency and produce accurate information. For this reason, it is necessary to analyze the factors that affect the benefits of using information technology in the registration section. This study aims to examine the relationship between the quality of information systems, the ability of officers and the performance of information users at RSI Siti Rahmah Padang, Indonesia. The research was conducted with survey method and data analysis using a quantitative approach. From the research results, it was found that the quality of information systems did not affect the benefits of using information technology. Meanwhile, the ability and performance of officers affect the benefits of using information technology. It is suggested that the scope of the use of information technology in the medical records section be increased. It is necessary to increase the ability of officers in the use of information technology by holding training or workshops.

ANALISIS FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI KUALITAS PENGELOLAAN BARANG MILIK DAERAH PADA OPD DI LINGKUNGAN PEMERINTAH KABUPATEN WAROPEN DENGAN KOMITMEN PIMPINAN SEBAGAI VARIABEL MODERATING

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Berlian Ritha Belo ◽  
Meinarni Asnawi ◽  
Anthonius H.C. Wijaya
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Management Information Systems ◽  
Regulatory Compliance ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
P Value ◽  
Management Information ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to examine the factors that influence the Quality of Regional Property Management in the Waropen District Government. These factors include the variable Quality of Regional Apparatus, Regulatory Compliance and Management Information Systems. In addition, this studyuses moderating variables, namely Leadership Commitment. The analytical tool in this study used WarpPLS 6.0. This software can analyze SEM models based on variants or better known as Partial Least Square. The SEM analysis model with WarpPLS can identify and estimate the relationship between latent variables whether the relationship is linear or non linear The results of this study indicate that Apparatus Quality and Regulatory Compliance affect the Management of BMD with P-values of each variable 0.028 and 0.005. While the management information system has no effect with a P-value of 0.148. In addition, the leadership commitment is not able to moderate the quality of regional apparatus to the quality of BMD management with a pvalue of 0.070. While organizational commitment is able to moderate the variable compliance with regulations and management information systems on the quality of BMD management with the respective P-value values of 0.001 and 0.012.

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