Across the hall / Across the Globe Project Management: Challenges for globally distributed teams Vikas Sehgal vsehgal@projistics.com Projistics San Jose, CA Gartner says……… By 2004 60% of professional and management tasks at Global 1000 companies will be by virtual teams. By 2003 50% of virtual teams will fail to meet strategic / operational objectives. 2 Agenda Why distributed teams? Challenges Risks Possible approach Case study – Lexware / Intuit