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Question

Marvin has been a successful as a project manager for a startup software developer based in Palo Alto, California for seven years. His company has decided to leverage the outstanding software development expertise emerging from the best technology institutes in India and assigns Marvin as the project manager for a new product that must be developed quickly. The work will be done as a virtual team to save on travel costs - besides programmers are high tech so they are comfortable with using Zoom. The HR department hires five employees from India, and you assign your five best programmers from your office in the U.S. The first conflict arose regarding the delivery date -- the U.S. programmers think the work can be finished in two to three weeks; the Indians are adamant that it will take two to three months. The team makes a compromise at a goal of six weeks. The team meets at times that are convenient for the U.S. programmers but inconvenient in India due to the 12 hour, 3 minute time difference between Palo Alto and Bangalore. As the work progresses, the Indian team members do not report glitches in the programs, which the U.S.