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Innovation and Project Management in International Distributed Teams. A Description of an Current Project Work

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This project tried to combine students from different degree programmes together in workgroups to get the best learning in communication within project teams with dirstributed teams. Students were given tasks weekly and reports were made continuously. Learning were made not only by programming for the companies, but also in information exchange of business-, media- and programming studentns.

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Reimann, C., Vitkauskaite, E., Kastel, T., Reiner, M. (2015). Innovation and Project Management in International Distributed Teams. A Description of an Current Project Work. In: O’Connor, R., Umay Akkaya, M., Kemaneci, K., Yilmaz, M., Poth, A., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 543. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24647-5_22

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