CIS 336 Strayer IT Support for Virtual Teams

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Assignment 3: IT Support for Virtual Teams

Due Week 6 and worth 200 points

Global organizations have branches that are located in multiple countries. Some of these organizations develop software and take advantage of the global talent pool of software developers while others have global technical support teams, customer service, and so on. Virtual teams are created when two or more people work together from different locations, organizations, times zone, and / or time shifts. Global organizations use virtual teams in order to provide global support, reduce travel costs, reduce training costs, and take advantage of local cultural knowledge that may impact the organization’s operations.

Write a two to three page paper in which you:

  1. Examine five issues that the IT department is likely to face when it comes to supporting virtual teams.
  2. Describe five advantages and five disadvantages of using virtual teams for the organizations described in the scenario.
  3. Describe challenges imposed by:
    1. IT / IS national standards and propose how they could be handled or resolved.
    2. Protocols and propose how they could be handled or resolved.
    3. Procedures on virtual teams and propose how they could be handled or resolved.

4. Compare and contrast virtual teams and traditional teams with respect to communications, technology use, and team diversity.

  1. Use at least three quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Describe the process of administering enterprise systems, including the use of virtualization and monitoring, and power and cooling issues.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in enterprise architecture.
  • Write clearly and concisely about enterprise architecture topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

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The five issues that the IT department is likely to face when it comes to supporting virtual
teams
1. Initiating a meaningful belief and trust in a virtual team members who barely know one
another is one of the biggest hurdles that stand on the way to building a successful team.
2. Maximally utilizing the gains of the process while keeping losses on the virtual teams.
Most consultants believe face to face engagements punctuates team process with synergy
reminiscent of tasks being undertaken. However, the same cannot be felt in a virtual
environment where each person only puts forward what they judge as best according to
them.
3. IT departments must also find ways of dealing with detachment and isolation
(Cummings, J., & Dennis, 2016). The virtual environment provides a false crowded space
with individuals whose level of interaction is through messaging, voice calls or video
calls but no physical presence of people who can offer physical support.
4. Lengthy consensus building and occasional leaps of typically characterize decisionmaking processes over virtual platforms back and forth.
5. Finally, the lack of self-involving participatory processes over virtual platforms makes it
impossible for individuals in the team to exhaust matters of consideration fully.
Five advantages of Virtual Teams for Software Development, Technical Support and
Customer Service global organizations
Leveraging global talent
Global software development organizations have created a pool of talents drawn from
various countries across the globe. The talen...


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