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Shared Understanding Management  
– by Ömer Ertekin, Senior Systems Engineer, Dornier Consulting Engineering & Services GmbH
Technology and more knowledge of other cultures and languages are making communication easier in projects distributed across mutliple teams, companies and continents. But the real problem with communication in project management is not communication itself, but rather "understanding." Understanding, as defined for the purposes of this discussion, is a result of different motivations for the project (the "hidden agendas"—not the requirements but the "desirements").