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Title: Organizing and Working as Project Teams


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Organizing and Working as Project Teams
  • Chapter 2 (Alternate)
  • MIS 4663

2
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

3
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)

4
Group Effectiveness
  • Groups (may be) more effective than (some)
    individuals in group
  • Empirical evidence shows the effectiveness of
    groups

5
Effective Teams
  • Appropriate Skills and Experience
  • Clear direction or tasks
  • Defined roles responsibilities
  • Communication
  • Targets and/or Milestones
  • Feedback
  • Evaluation Rewards

6
Team Organization
  • Clear, explicit role for each person
  • Match role to abilities
  • Balance workload
  • Restructure / reassign as you learn
  • Accommodate special issues

7
Problems and Conflict
  • SuperAnalyst
  • SuperAnalyst2
  • Odd person out
  • Us and Them
  • The slacker
  • The jerk
  • Who loses - you do

8
Organize Your Project Team
  • Clear Role for each person
  • Write it down
  • Hand in at end of class
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