One major difference between a virtual team over real industry team is that the team members can pitch in at their own comfortable timings. So usually its the two or three members at a time who will be discussing the new ideas instead of all of them present at the same time and trying to be audible to each other as it happens in the face to face meetings. In virtual teams, everything is well documented so there is no confusion related to who is doing what. And the members feel more responsible to finish the work before the deadline and and they provide a good back up if the other team members are busy. As it happened with me, when i was not present on the group forum to reply to the Professor, one of my team member was replying on my behalf to meet the deadline. This way, it builds a strong bond between the team members and it reduces the negative competition. It always leads to less arguments when you don’t meet the members face to face as compared to real life meetings.

So i feel in a real industry, the members of the team must be able articulate their ideas in proper calm and composed manner and to the point. The role of every team member must be documented well so that there is no confusion later on. And they should try to support each other in the work, the way we were doing in the simulation 1.