Collaboration

Collaboration in virtual teams refers to synchronous and asynchronous interactions and tasks to achieve common goals.

Challenges

• Awareness of colleagues and their context
• Motivational sense of the presence of others
• Trust is more difficult to establish
• Explicit management
• The competitive/cooperative culture

People tend to work harder when they are not alone. Awareness of individual work is important.

In fact, building mutual trust and personal knowledge about collaborators is more important to good collaboration than solving technical issues.