A complete workbook for forming, assessing, and developing successful project teams Written by the author of the bestselling Effective Project Management, Second Edition (0-471-36028-7), this book offers a new and unique approach to developing project teams: treat the development of the team just as you would the development of software. Wysocki walks readers through the key phases for assigning project teams, supplementing the discussion with working examples garnered from his years of experience as a consultant to IT and software development project teams. Readers will learn how to use Wysocki's project team analysis tools to analyze their own teams and gain valuable insight into the five typical personality types that most teams will face.

This book will encompass an important topic for any organization, Team Building. It will serve as a simplistic, entertaining, yet strategic guide to effectively building successful project teams. Consider this guide the unparalleled resource to achieving ultimate project success. We will explore real world examples, lessons learned, and things to look out for when building project teams. This guide will aid any manager, in any environment, to truly wrap their minds around the characteristics, objectives, and skills needed to effectively orchestrate and assemble a truly successful team. It has taken many hours, months, and years of frustration in order to formulate the philosophies outlined in this self help guide. I hope every leader, at every level, can relish in these philosophies, and use them to relieve the burden and frustrations that can accompany team formulation. This guide will contain eight revolving steps which should be taken into consideration with any project. Each step holds its own importance, and will be broken down and discussed in detail throughout this guide. This guide is a building block to success as a leader, and each step is the support structure for them to become successful. Effective teams are an important factor to any organizations ability to be successful. To aid in the development and establishment of these teams is my intentions of this guide. Hopefully, my contributions will one day modernize and simplify the ability to establish such teams nationally and potentially globally, through all types of corporations and business ventures.

This book addresses the important issues involved in forming effective and profitable teams for construction projects - both within and between client, design and construction firms. It is divided into two main sections. The first contains theories related to particular aspects of project teams, with key points illustrating their practical application. The second contains real and simulated building and civil engineering case studies, each concluding with corrective lessons to aid successful construction project team building.

Every successful organization needs high-performance teams to compete and succeed. Yet, technical people are often resistant to traditional "touchy-feely" teambuilding. To improve communication, performance, and morale among NASA’s technical teams, former NASA Astrophysicist Dr. Charlie Pellerin developed the teambuilding process described in "How NASA Builds Teams"—an approach that is proven, quantitative, and requires only a fraction of the time and resources of traditional training methods. This "4-D" process has boosted team performance in hundreds of NASA project teams, engineering teams, and management teams, including the people responsible for NASA’s most complex systems — the Space Shuttle, space telescopes, robots on Mars, and the mission back to the moon. How NASA Builds Teams explains how the 4-D teambuilding process can be applied in any organization, and includes a fast, free on-line behavioral assessment to help your team and the individual members understand each other and measure the key driver of team performance, the social context. Moreover, these simple, logical processes appeal strongly to technical teams who eschew "touchy-feely" training. Pellerin applies simple, elegant principles from his physics background to the art teambuilding, such as the use of a coordinate system to analyze the characteristics of team performance into actionable elements. The author illustrates the teambuilding process with entertaining stories from his decade as NASA’s Director for Astrophysics and subsequent 15 years of working closely with NASA and outside business teams. For example, he tells how the processes in the book enabled him to initiate the space mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope’s flawed mirror. Free downloadable resources will help you: Identify your teammates’ innate personalities Diagram your culture (And compare it to your customer’s) Measure the coherency of your project’s paradigm (Get this wrong and you will be fired!) and Learn to meet people’s need to feel valued by you. Further, you can download and use Pellerin’s most powerful tool for influencing the outcome of any difficult situation: the Context Shifting Worksheet.

Engineering businesses today run through projects. Projects are successful when we have effective project leadership, which builds effective teams and teams. All these attributes increase the performance of the organization and enable it to achieve competitive advantage. Project management is the need of today’s businesses for acquiring business development and attaining business performance in local as well as in global markets as business performance is driven by competitive advantage, which is possible through successful project management. Development of new products and other competitive products and services is done through the implementation of projects. Projects are deployed for process improvements, which further add to the profitability and growth of the business. This book discusses the aspects of project management processes, project leadership, and team building in context to project management together, which improves business performance.

The past half-century has witnessed a dramatic increase in the scale and complexity of scientific research. The growing scale of science has been accompanied by a shift toward collaborative research, referred to as "team science." Scientific research is increasingly conducted by small teams and larger groups rather than individual investigators, but the challenges of collaboration can slow these teams' progress in achieving their scientific goals. How does a team-based approach work, and how can universities and research institutions support teams? Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science synthesizes and integrates the available research to provide guidance on assembling the science team; leadership, education and professional development for science teams and groups. It also examines institutional and organizational structures and policies to support science teams and identifies areas where further research is needed to help science teams and groups achieve their scientific and translational goals. This report offers major public policy recommendations for science research agencies and policymakers, as well as recommendations for individual scientists, disciplinary associations, and research universities. Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science will be of interest to university research administrators, team science leaders, science faculty, and graduate and postdoctoral students.