Workshop:

Collaborating Remotely for New Product Development

Most companies now develop products with teams that span geographies, time-zones, cultures and even enterprises. In this module, we will learn the best techniques for managing the collaboration infrastructure and for designing the collaboration culture for lightning-speed product development.

Some product development leaders have begun to achieve performance similar to collocated teams by using the internet to achieve ‘virtual collocation”. A few have even surpassed that performance, learning to take advantage of the geographic and cultural diversity rather than seeing it as a necessary evil.

TechZecs, LLC offers a one-day training workshop for executives and professionals on how to collaborate. This workshop is in the form of thought provoking exercises and best practice sharing.

Workshop Outline:

Benefits, Risks & Pitfalls of Collaborating

Tools and Techniques

Applications can be roughly categorized into six types of collaboration:

               1. Presentations

               2. Knowledge Inventory Building and Sharing

               3. Brainstorming, strategy calibration and decision making meetings

               4. Technical collaboration

               5. Project Workflow and Task Coordination Tools

               6. Trust and team building

Benefits to Attendees:

Discuss the merit of various types of collaboration tools available today.

Understand the types of human behavior and leadership styles change that must take place.

Reinforce basic principles of robust project management, effective meetings, team building and people management with a particular emphasis on relevant aspects for remote members and subgroups.

This workshop is designed for 8 to 15 participants and can be completed in eight hours.

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