PMBOK Cafe is an innovative workshop that explores the best practices of 2009 Summer Stakeholder PresentationTeam Management
Team Management
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Managing people is very important task in the project management.
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Since defined process are executed by people, it has to carried with synchronized way with common goal in mind.
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Process and people are equally crucial to project
Success of the project depends on team success. The single biggest factor on any project is people. Managing people is very important in the management of a project. Since defined process are executed by people, it has to be carried and synchronized in way with the common goal in mind. People and process are equally crucial to projects.
A Japanese Idiom "Ten people, ten colors". It means it is very common to have difference of opinion, understanding, beliefs and values across the team. Conflicts and cultural difference are very common problems in offshore teams also. All members reach total agreement, share one vision and common sense like one big family. Working together with respect and trust.
- FORM Form the team. Know each other. Make each other to feel comfortable.
- STORM Collect diffence of opinions, conflicts over the project. Bring common understanding, single vision.
- NORM Time to normalize the team as a whole family. Work on common theme to achieve project goals.
"Teamwork is not a new idea. Readers can trace the basic concepts of organizing and managing teams back to biblical times. However, in today's more complex, multinational, and technological sophisticated environment, the work group has reemerged as a business concept and its unified team performance is now regarded as crucial to project success (Thamhain & Wilemon, 1998; Willimas, 2002).
Some of the biggest constraints facing global teams, is coordinating people schedules across time zones, Language Barriers and Cultural Differences.
Seven beliefs for great high performance.
- Clear and Public Accountability
- Trusted Competency
- Give and Take
- Total Transparency
- Shared Glory
- Meaningful Mission value
- Outcome Optimism
Team Building is the key to a strong business and project success. Success in team building is measured in two ways: by keeping conflicts down and performance up. If Team works as a family success is guaranteed. Build trusted teams and have successful projects.
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