SIM 335 Managing Projects Autumn
People in Projects
Learning Outcomes:
•Explain how the role of managing project teams differs from the role of the functional or line manager.
•Discuss the factors in the business environment that lead to the successful selection and management of project teams.
•Recognise and respond to the needs of project stakeholders
People in Projects
•Effective Teams
•Ineffective Teams
•Multi-disciplinary Teams
•Tuckman (1965), Belbin (1996)
•Project Leadership Styles
•The Project Manager’s Role
•Technical Experts vs. Generalists Summary
People in Projects
•A group or team has certain attributes that a random crowd does not possess:
•The members have a sense of identity: there are boundaries to the group which define it.
•Members are loyal to the group: they conform to the norms of behaviour and attitude that bind the group together.
•Purpose and leadership: most groups have a purpose and a set ofobjectives.
The Purpose of Project Teams
•The project will almost certainly require skills that no one individual would possess.
•Teams can brainstorm to generate ideas
•Once a team has made a decision the team will/should commit to it.
•Teams act as motivators
•Members can help and support one another.
Project Team Structure
Project Manager:
- Transport person
- Designer
- Expeditor
- Planner
- Procurement
- Engineer
- Accountant
- Secretary
Why teams succeed?
•A good spread of mental skills
•A good spread of personalities to give balance
•Project team leader is effective and accepted by other members of the team
•Teams are effective in generating ideas and solutions to problems.
•Processes support objective
•Regular communication
