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Team Transitions
The evolution (and de-evolution) of project teams is an ongoing process that occurs throughout the life of a project -- and an organization. How can project leaders, with an eye toward the self-organizing team model, better drive these transitions to improve execution?
This is the seventh article in Dennis Smith's series on organizational project management and self-organizing teams. Search the author’s name or view the PMO/EPM department to read previous installments, which detail hub-and-spoke and heroic models, among other concepts.
Most projects start life long before the project team is formed and most start with a “heroic” model — one person with an idea who will champion that idea. If you count a project’s runtime from this initial starting point, as much as half of a project’s cycle-time is spent before the formal project team starts work.
The next step for the champion (who emerges as the project “hub”) is to build a constituency — a small group of people who are convinced the project is viable and will deliver benefits that are consistent with the business’s priorities. This is the project’s first transition to the hub-and-spoke model. It is both formal, in that it is required to sell the project to management, and informal, in that the team members (the …
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