Organizing and Working as Project Teams

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Organizing and Working as Project Teams

• Chapter 2 (Alternate)
• MIS 4663

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Work Groups or Teams

• Defined set of members and boundaries
• One or more tasks to perform
• Member/task interdependencies
• Structured organizational framework
• Roles for the members

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Reasons for Project Teams

• Size - task too large for one person
• Skill - task requires a skills mix
• Knowledge - for multiple areas
• Performance - teams better than the average
  (best?) member
• Politics - gain support and confidence (make
  client a member)

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Group Effectiveness

• Groups (may be) more effective than (some)
  individuals in group
• Empirical evidence shows the effectiveness of
  groups

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Effective Teams

• Appropriate Skills and Experience
• Clear direction or tasks
• Defined roles responsibilities
• Communication
• Targets and/or Milestones
• Feedback
• Evaluation Rewards

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Team Organization

• Clear, explicit role for each person
• Match role to abilities
• Balance workload
• Restructure / reassign as you learn
• Accommodate special issues

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Problems and Conflict

• SuperAnalyst
• SuperAnalyst2
• Odd person out
• Us and Them
• The slacker
• The jerk
• Who loses - you do

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Organize Your Project Team

• Clear Role for each person
• Write it down
• Hand in at end of class