  A virtual team is a group of geographically distant people who work together
to achieve a shared goal for a common organization. From the past few years
this concept has been evolved and has emerged the idea of global project
management. Virtual teams have been beneficial in cost reduction; hiring
competent work force and improving globalization. Although virtual teams are
beneficial for an organization; but they are hard to manage and control
successfully. There can be several challenges like cultural issues; different
time zones and communication gap. These challenges are not hard to manage; and
we can overcome these challenges using effective project management skills.
These skills will become the success factors for making virtual teams
successful and will be determined by comparison of the survey results of
traditional and virtual teams.
