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Three essential drivers that must be achieved to generate
positive characteristics in project teams - ANSWER-
Cohesiveness, Trust, Motivation
The five stages Dr. Bruce Tuckman (1965) introduced of
group development - ANSWER-Forming, Storming,
Norming, Performing, Adjorning
Forming - ANSWER-In this stage, team members may be
meeting for the first time. Often, no one really knows
much about anyone else on the team. It may be premature
to refer to this group of individuals as a team. It is a time
of introduction and forming relationships and
understanding from exchange of information.
Storming - ANSWER-Team members are beginning to
know about each other, but they do not yet understand
,how to work together. Members may "jockey for
position" within the team. The dynamics of working
together beyond any written statement of "roles and
responsibilities" are being established. Personalities
surface, showing the strengths, weaknesses, and personal
needs of each individual on the team. Integration into a
team may come with some struggle and conflict.
Norming - ANSWER-Team members have "figured out"
how they will interact with each other. Working
relationships are beginning to form. Trust and
understanding is beginning to form between team
members. They are beginning to feel comfortable working
together and openly and willingly sharing information.
Performing - ANSWER-Team members are fully
comfortable working together. Trust has been developed.
Working relationships have jelled. Work is being
conducted and project progress is occurring.
Adjourning - ANSWER-This only occurs when all the
team's work has been completed and the team is no longer
required. This may occur at any time in the project life
cycle.
Co-located Teams - ANSWER-involves team members
physically working at the same location or holding project
meetings together in a common setup.
,Virtual Teams - ANSWER-are teams whose members
interact primarily through electronic communications.
Members of a virtual team may be within the same
building or across continents.
Two common situations occur that may prompt a change
to the baseline scope - ANSWER-The scope may be
expanded to include additional functionality or the scope
may be diminished due to changes in the project
environment such as reduced funding or requirements or
changing time/due date.
Scope creep - ANSWER-occurs when the project team
integrates enhancements to the scope without proper
evaluation and approval.
work performance data - ANSWER-will identify the work
activities that are completed, partially completed, or not
started.
risk register - ANSWER-is a list of potential risks, how
the risks will be monitored, and what action will be taken
should the risk event occur.
corrective action - ANSWER-is a document issued to
identify quality failures and how they will be corrected.
The deliverable itself may need to be reworked and the
, project plan may need to be revised to ensure that future
deliverables do not include the same error.
The Four Categories of Change - ANSWER-Contingency
plans, improvement changes, external events, scope
change
The change management system - ANSWER-is in place
to formally identify, evaluate, decide, and communicate
project changes.
Recording - ANSWER-is the process of documenting and
archiving project-related information.
Reporting - ANSWER-is a key nonverbal
communications methodology used to inform and to
document project information.
Weekly status reports that are often working documents
for the team to communicate: - ANSWER-
Accomplishments, Issues, Schedules, Resource utilization
Monthly status reports for senior stakeholders that would
include: - ANSWER-Project overview bragging about
progress, Issues including red light (critical) problems
needing immediate resolution, yellow light items that are
warning flags, and resolved issues, Current
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