Virtual Team Challenges for a Business Analyst
Every day more and more BA’s I speak with are faced with the challenge of working with team members and business stakeholders that are geographically dispersed. For today’s post I wanted to share an excerpt from Barbara Carkenord’s book, Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis. Below are two topics, time zone differences and nationality and cultural differences, she covers in the Know Your Audience chapter where she provides great tips for working with dispersed/virtual teams.
Time Zone Differences
When stakeholders work in different time zones, scheduling phone calls and conference calls is challenging. Project team members may be asked to work different hours from those which they are normally accustomed. The PM and