E-MailThe New World of Teams: Ad Hoc and Virtual
During the mid-1980s, the "traditional" project team model that prevailed at the outset of my IT career quietly disappeared. It was replaced by a new team that has become the norm for most business and IT project teams: the ad hoc team. Whereas traditional teams comprised a fixed group of individuals with clear hierarchies and reporting relationships, the ad hoc team is a group that works together but has complex reporting lines and allegiances outside the team and whose members participate in multiple teams. Surprisingly, organizational and management theory gurus have paid little attention to this new team model. While the recent work of researchers such as Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith [9]; Don Mankin, Susan Cohen, and Tora Bikson [12]; and Annemarie Caracciolo [2] continues to develop the body of knowledge for teams and teamwork, the literature on the subject focuses on what this report refers to as "traditional" teams.
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