Management Framework for Globally Distributed Teams in IT Industry

Software development is a highly creative and collaborative endeavor in which success requires a fine degree of coordination between many people front many different disciplines, often working across different geographies and time zones and sometimes across cultural borders. When implementing software development in a global environment, a popular strategy is the establishment of globally distributed teams. Project management owes its existence as a management discipline to the complex, high technology undertakings. Projects are complex endeavors and project outcomes are far from being certain. Software development warns are plagued by management problems that result in missed deadlines, budget overruns, and canceled projects, and effective management remains an open problem. The management aspect becomes further challenging and complicated while dealing ethical, time zone, cross cultural issues inherent to a globally distributed team. In this paper we have presented an adept management framework for globally distributed teams.