Ginny, a project manager, had a frustrating meeting with her boss, Henry, the VP of Engineering. His exact words to her were, “I don’t care how you get it done, but we need all of these two feature sets done. Now!” She explained she needed more teams to finish the work. Otherwise, people would be […]
The Manager’s Role in Creating Effective Teams, Part 3 Is it a manager’s job to search through haystacks to find people who can become part of a jelled team? Not really. If you know you have an unjeller, the manager’s job is to prevent that person from being on a team you hope will jell.
The Case Against Stable Teams, Part 2 In The Case for Stable Teams, Part 1 , I wrote about stable teams as a way to create jelled teams. My guideline was that the longer it took for people to be useful in the team, the more you needed a stable team. Otherwise, the cost of
The Case for Stable Teams, Part 1 A long-time reader, Al, asked me about jelled teams. What makes a team jell? Would I please write an email about that? This is part 1 of 3 part series about teams. Often, a manager forms a new team. The team storms as the people establish themselves and