Description

Choosing a proper effective project team is a key for projects success. An effective project team can turn the group of individuals into the strong and organized system walking towards the common goal. An ability to form an effective team is probably one of the most important key competences of a successful project manager.

To create an effective project team some of the major points to be followed are given below:

• Selecting a Team: Right people should be chosen in a team for the project. Team members should be chosen based on their skills and abilities as they apply for the particular project. Project managers should search for mixture of team members each with a different set of skills and abilities, rather than a series of clones all with identical skills. They should ensure that team members should be taken as a group they together represent all the skills you need in the proportions that you need them.

• Setting Clear Goals: Effective project teams know what their goals are, and they understand them well. For that project manager should accurately define goals among team members. When project teams understand their mission, all the members will be on the same page. Project managers must try to build a team that works together with common aims, all working towards the same final goal.

• Team Members Should Know What They Need to Do: To build a effective project team it is necessary that each team member should know their individual role. It’ll help them take on responsibility. Project managers should assign tasks and make ownership of tasks clear when planning out the projects.

• Communication among team members: In effective project team proper communication is very important for project because majority of projects fail because of poor communication. For that project manager should try team building activities to increase trust among team members.

• Project Team Should Unite to Specific Team Culture: Team culture is backbone of teamwork. It includes: Behavior, Shared values, Accountability, Autonomy. Common work culture should be accepted by all the team members in a particular project for a effective project team.