Management in India

Why teams fail

First let's answer the question: when is a team considered a failure? A team is considered failure when:

• It fails to deliver on promises.
• Path to delivery is difficult. Problems keep showing up all the time and no problem is easy to solve.
• It takes too much energy for people to work with this team.
• High turnover rate. Loses people all the time.
• Cost of delivery is high.
• Is unable to shake the perception of failure. Even though the team may do reasonably well, management and peers continue to see it as a failure due to past impressions.

Now, let's examine why teams fail. Many of the reasons are the negative contortion of the things that build a team.

Expectations, alignment, and team direction not clear

Teams fail when they don't know where ...