What makes an Effective Project Team?

The issues of building an effective team are largely behavioral ones, which is often the forgotten element of project management practices and procedures. These behavioral elements and the consideration of such things are often the elements that distinguish successful project teams from others. There are many studies out there that put a significance emphasis on this, where they identify various team characteristics that when assembled constitute an effective team. Very often behavioral roles need to be taken into account but these are seldom done. You may ask why … because their are constraints on resource allocations, capabilities and often times the delivery point comes before the team composition.

The process of building an effective team is a difficult one, where many barriers may arise from many different sources. An understanding of these barriers can help in pre-empting the problems while also developing an environment suitable to effective project team building:

• Divergent Outlooks: - Team members may have professional objectives and interests that differ significantly from the project objectives. These can manifest in many ways but are often a gaps in how people / teams are involved in the development of the project and can be deemed as a lack of inclusion in some of the key decisions.
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