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Team Essentials

Create the right working environment to enable the team to excel

Use this practice to bring together a project team and establish an effective working environment.

This practice allows teams to:

  • adopt appropriate leadership and organizational patterns
  • set up and evolve an appropriate team working environment
  • introduce tools and techniques that help the team to reach their goals
  • develop effective ways to collaborate and organize their work
  • come together so that all team members are able to contribute at the peak of their capability throughout the project

Things to Produce

This practice involves the establishment of effective team working practices and the production of related artifacts:

  • The team is formed and the team structure and responsibilities are captured in the team charter.
  • The team members are integrated into the team and effective ways of collaborating evolved. 


Key Competencies

This practice requires the team to be skilled in leadership, self organization and coaching.

This requires the following competencies to be in place:

This practice requires the team to have the leadership and supports skills in place to bring the team together and set up and support a suitable working environment for the team. Co-operation from all the other team members will be required but there is no specific level of competency required to be able to join the team.


Things to do

The practice starts by forming the initial project team and environment as part of the launch of the project.

The effectiveness of the team working and the support provided by the environment is then continuously evaluated and improved.

Throughout the project the team is guided by the project lead and coach to facilitate team working and remove any obstacles that prevent effective team working. Finally at the end of the project the team hands over any of its remaining responsibilities as the project is shut down.

Patterns and Guidelines

This practice comes with a large selection of proven team working patterns to assist the team in rapidly establishing the right relationships and collaborative environment. 

Additional patterns are supplied in both these areas, as well as sets of communication and leadership patterns.