This is an innovative way of managing remote teams without the complication or expense of specialised on-line project management applications.

You first set up membership levels to represent the various teams within the project. You can then assign individual project resources (i.e. team members) to one or more teams.

The members of each of those teams then has access to its own area within your project’s site as well as any shared common resources.

To facilitate an overall view of project progress, you give your project co-ordinator access to all teams’ areas. This allows the co-ordinator to:

• consolidate team reports for upward reporting to the project manager (PM)
• add deliverables, tasks and directions to teams’ membership areas under the control of the PM