Virtual Team Rooms require both people and task factors to be supported

Independent people have skills and experience they bring to a job-position with one or more roles		Interdependent positions have relationships played as roles in structures and processes within and between teams
People Factors		Task Factors
A virtual teams methodology and its associated training must include deep attention to people factors. “It’s all about the people” is as true of the new distributed way of working in virtual as it has always been with physical places. Historically, three key factors of team formation and persistence have been associated with a shared place:		A virtual teams methodology includes formal and informal ways to collect, or create, key information regarding the who, what, why, and when for a team. Digital virtual team rooms are essential and the methodology should help shape basic common team room architecture
Shared identity “Shared but secret information” separates members (“us”) from others (“them”)
Socialize into team culture New people become members of a group through “controlled access to group information”
Social order According to tradition, authority is highly dependent on access to exclusive places that houses special knowledge

Team Rooms must support social and task factors