1. Use various online tools to facilitate distance communication.
   
2. Actively deal with challenges related to distributed teamwork, including the ability to;
   - Bridge interdisciplinary and cultural gaps in day-to-day communication with team members
   - Understand how to share information to have a successful collaboration
   - Conduct online conversation in a respectful manner
   - Reach a consensus within a conflict area
   
   
3. Understand basic theories and gain practical experience with distributed project management, including the ability to;
   - take active part in the project definition and planning
   - take active part in the division of roles and responsibilities in the team
   - reflect on the dynamics of the individual roles and areas of responsibly in a project team
   - coordinate and carry out a dedicated part of the project process
   
   
4. Demonstrate experience from taking part in a globally distributed software development team within a specialised area, such as: Business idea, Business strategy, Branding strategy, Requirement specification, Design, Usability, Software design, Programming, Testing
   
    

The course will include required reading on distributed project management and teamwork, inter-cultural and cross-disciplinary collaboration, as well as material on the involved development issue.

At ITU the course will run during the entire spring semester 2008. Since the semester overlap between SSM and ITU is only 12 weeks, ITU students are expected to spend a minimum of time during the autumn of 2007 to establish contact to the students at SSM, in order to get acquainted and to reach an agreement of the project scope before the semester starts in 2008.

Each group will consist of approximately 5 ITU students and 5 SSM students. Each group will have both a supervisor at ITU and a supervisor at SSM.

Each group will interact through conventional Internet technology (email, chat, Skype, Google Docs ...). Due to the time difference between Copenhagen and Beijing (6 hours), students must be prepared to interact at odd hours.

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How to sign up for the project cluster:
You sign up for this project cluster as if for a normal course. But please note that enrolment in a project cluster is not considered a binding course registration (only relevant to M.Sc. students).

NB! Students who are interested in participating should contact Marie Gottlieb at the International Office at ITU (room 2E11 / phone: 72 18 52 20 / mago@itu.dk).
Deadline of application is November 1, 2007.

The project cluster will not appear on your diploma but the project that you register in the Project Base will of course appear when you have passed the exam.  

Since the project is a joint project with students at Beida, the exam form is individual liability and the project report must state briefly what the main contributions of each contributor to the project have been.