Part V. Maintaining the Team

Peggy was an experienced program manager, but she was having problems with a project and was not sure how to handle some issues. This was a large multi-team TSP project with three subteams. Team A was in the application division in San Jose and team B was in the infrastructure division in San Diego. Team C, the requirements team, had members from both divisions. The leader for team C was in San Diego.

Since the members of team C had different backgrounds, locations, and management, Peggy had originally worried that they would have problems working together. However, that had not turned out to be the problem. The problem was that teams A and B were fighting with each other and were now seriously behind schedule. ...

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