Team Management

What

Team Management is the Process of managing teams. These may be Project Teams or business teams.

Process Diagram

Team Management consists of the following major Procedures:

Why

The main reason we form teams is to increase productivity. Yes, there are other spinoffs (eg, cross-pollination of ideas), but these all lead to increased productivity. Putting people together and just calling them a "team" will not work. You can't just wave a magic wand and say "poof, you are a team". All this does is give the person creating the "team" a warm and fuzzy feeling. Creating teams is hard work. For a team to work (ie, achieve real productivity gains) you need to address all of the Team Requirements.

When and Where

This technique is used throughout the whole project lifecycle and is not limited to any specific project lifecycle phase.

How

When a team forms it can potentially move through all of the above team types.
Improving team productivity can not be mandated.
There are environmental issues that a manager can improve (eg, Creating a Conducive Work Environment).
The choice and actions required to move to a higher productivity are mostly controlled by the team members themselves.

The material presented in PMMentor (PMM) is designed to help you to understand and build high-performing teams. Our objective is to get Project Teams to become high-performing. This is done to enable Project Teams to be more productive. In high-performing teams, individuals are no longer political or social friends or enemies, but fellow team members working to meet the same goal.

The longer a team is together, the higher up the productivity curve it could get.

The material presented here is all about team theory. Because of this, it uses the term "team" rather than "Project Team". You need to understand team theory before you can understand many of the Techniques and Concepts and Themes embedded within PMMentor (PMM).

Scaling

Also See

Team Management is one of the significant Processes that exist throughout PMMentor (PMM). To print a "Handout Pack" on this Process, create and print a title page and then click on the "Print" button (to print this topic to act as a Table of Contents) and then click on each of the following topics in turn. When the topic is displayed, click on the "Print" button, then click on the "Back" button to return to this topic and choose the next topic to print.

Disperse Project Team

Empowerment

Expected Team Behaviour

General Composition

General Management Skills

Groups of People

High-Performing Team

Leadership Style and Team Development Stages

Management Theory

Potential Team

Project Team Composition Form

Pseudo Team