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Project Team Zen – Part III

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Project Team Composition

This is the third article in a series covering the topic of Project Team Composition, hence the incredibly cunning name of it.

So we have now established people in our Dream Team should have complementary skills of a similar level. We have also established people in our Newbie Team should have complementary skills of a similar level, mainly because it really doesn’t matter what level you put the team on, it needs to be of a similar level if you are striving towards Project Team Zen.

We have also established that a team can have a bad player, but also that no half decent team becomes awesome only because they have one or two awesome team members. So lets continue with our list, and go through the last two points.

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A New Adventure

Have you ever tried to change your home, your car, your job, your team, even your country, and just move somewhere else and do something new? Well, I have. And here I go again.

After 3.5 great years I have decided to leave my current job at Profero. Actually, after 10.5 years I have decided to leave the UK and London, but seeing as me and my little family will be moving back to our native Sweden, further employment with Profero would have been complicated to say the least, so leaving the great team at Profero, where we have been doing some really great work, hired some awesome people, particularly lately, and over the years won a truckload of awards, is one of the necessary sacrifices I have to make.

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Project Team Zen – Part II

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Project Team Composition

This is the second article in a series about Project Team Composition. You can find links to the related articles in the series index above.

In the last article I said there are a few things a good well-oiled constantly habitually repetetive winning teams need to have:

  • Complementary skills, and knowing and trusting the others will do their part
  • Approximately the same skill level
  • Striving for similar goals
  • Mutual respect for each other, and for each others skills

Lets start going through that list in more detail, and today I am more about football than music, just so you know.

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Project-Team Zen – Part I

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Project Team Composition
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The concept of team work, and project teams, is an interesting one, particularly as there can be more combinations of teams than there are people. As this will be a series of posts on the topic I shall start this one with laying the foundation for some of the reasoning later.

I ended my old article, Excellence – Teamwork or flying Solo, with the following statement:

Point being, if you have a well-oiled team, who knows each other and each others skills, and who trust each other, the chance of innovation, of improvising and experimenting on the fly when things you predicted didn’t really materialise, this can take you to (greater) places no plan could have foreseen.

Worst case scenario will be that you did everything in your power with the best talent you could find, which should be a whole lot better than quite a few alternatives.

Now, let us have a look at Project Team composition, how and why it can be so completely “right” one time, but also how and why it can go so completely wrong at other times. When a project team goes not-so-well as well it normally leaves chaos, disaster and/or general unhappiness behind. Please note that I am talking about Project teams here, not departments. I shall touch on the difference later, but for now, let’s have a look at what makes people in great teams to become great, and lets start looking at it from the perspective of a music band, just because I can.

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How to write a blog post – Part II

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Blogging
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Time to save the world

This is the second part of my instructional blog post about…errr…blog posts. You can find the first one over here: How to write a blog post, and just to re-cap: this is mainly for the guys (friends and colleagues) that I have recently installed WordPress blogs for, and who maybe not are entirely used to writing for an online audience. If this is not you, and you don’t have a blog, you will probably not find this overly interesting.

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