Team Building
Building an effective team begins on the first day of the team’s existence. Failure to begin the team building process may result in a team that is more like a group than a team. In a group, members may be involved in but not committed to the activities of the majority.
Teams don’t just happen—they must be built!
The problem of commitment is a major one for both organizations and project teams. It is especially significant in matrix organizations, in which members of the project team are actually members of functional groups and have their own bosses but report to the project manager on a “dotted-line” basis.
Later in this chapter, I present rules for how a project manager can develop commitment to a team. For now, let us turn ...
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