8.7 Project team
A project team is defined as a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance, goals and approach who are directly or indirectly accountable to the project manager.
— Michael W. Newell and Marina N. Grashina, The Project Management Question and Answer Book, American Management Association, 2004.
Project teams work in a different way from operational staff. A project team is brought together for the sole purpose of achieving the project objectives. On completion of the project, the team is disbanded. Team members may be drawn from a specialist division within the organization, such as the IT department, to work on the project and may be assigned to other projects when it ...
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