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.
Project-Team Zen – Part I
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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:
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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