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Xiaobo Wang MSc. student| The university of Warwick United Kingdom
Dear Project Community,

Hello, I am currently an MSc student doing programme and project management course. I have some questions about project management and really want to hear from you, professinal project managers and scholars in terms of the topic of project team effectiveness.

1. What do you considered to be the most important factor to be an effective team?

2.What strategies and planning process should project team consider to becoming more effective to address challenges?

3.How do you build an effective project team as a project manager?

4. What communication appraches in your current project team to be effective?

Thank you very much!!! Looking forward to hearing from you!!!!

Best regards
Xiaobo
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Ian McGregor Business Analyst| Self employed Burlington, Ontario, Canada
1. Clear understanding of the goal or objective of the work.
2. Structured face to face meetings, else conference calls but using a published structured agenda. Each team member should have a role to fill. Very open dialogue allowed and everyone can speak on equal terms.
3. Have to build trust and cohesion. Set goals approved by the team as reasonable.
4. Weekly meeting with stakeholders for a status update. Team meetings when necessary but daily status available on a status board for the team to review.
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Jul 27, 2017 9:51 AM
Xiaobo Wang
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Many thanks. Really appreciation for your valuable insights!

Kindest regards
Xiaobo
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Xiaobo Wang MSc. student| The university of Warwick United Kingdom
Jul 27, 2017 9:39 AM
Replying to Ian McGregor
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1. Clear understanding of the goal or objective of the work.
2. Structured face to face meetings, else conference calls but using a published structured agenda. Each team member should have a role to fill. Very open dialogue allowed and everyone can speak on equal terms.
3. Have to build trust and cohesion. Set goals approved by the team as reasonable.
4. Weekly meeting with stakeholders for a status update. Team meetings when necessary but daily status available on a status board for the team to review.
Many thanks. Really appreciation for your valuable insights!

Kindest regards
Xiaobo
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Mikel Steadman PMO Leader| Development Dimensions International Troy, Nh, United States
1. Clear understanding of the goal (the why) and the path to the goal.

2. COMMUNICATION: You need to play reporter and get in front of as many people as possible to build alignment and momentum. This does NOT mean book massive amounts of meetings with groups. Start with one-to-ones, build your champions and your influencers.

3. See --https://medium.com/@mikelsteadman/pillars-...ng-389c005db179

4. Stakeholder updates (brief), once aligned and onboard you can give email updates to your separate teams (exec, stakeholders, contributors, etc). In person, project status reports to your steering committee or PMO as well. I even use a dashboard and write articles that can be added to the internal division's newsletter.

GOOD LUCK.
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Heitor Ferreira Project Manager| NCR Corporation Manaus, Am, Brazil
1. Everybody needs to be on the same page so clear goal and aligned expectations play an important role.

2. Effective communication: right information, at the right for the right people;
Trust and confidence by sharing power;
Do not micro-manage OR avoid it as much as possible;

3. Know your team and work with them to maximize their strengts and fill the gaps;
Know your team's expectation and figure out ways to fullfill them. It must be a win-win deal;
Trust, be positive, calm and provide the example;

4. It's very relative but focus on understanding what information is required.
For stakeholders: focus on the necessary for that specific moment and audience (no more no less);
For team: keep it as simple as possible (15min daily meetings, face-to-face) and be open when necessary;

Cheers

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