Part. III Teamworking

A new TSP team had only been working for three weeks but it was already behind schedule. It was the first time Candy had led a TSP project, and she could see from the team’s third weekly status report that they were falling further behind each week. In the Monday morning team meeting, she reviewed the data in the table on page 94 with the team. The first and most obvious problem was that the team members were not working enough task hours. While everyone was working a very full week, they weren’t devoting enough of their working hours to project tasks.

Everyone agreed to put in more task hours, but Candy was not satisfied. “Just trying harder won’t do it. I know you’re all trying pretty hard right now. What are you going ...

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