Executive Summary

Managing a Multiple Team Project

Posted March 31, 2006 | Leadership |

The challenge facing today's project manager is how to organize a number of independent teams with potentially disparate cultures into a cohesive unit. Each team has its own set of tools, templates, and processes, which it claims are the best. Should the project manager let each team do its own thing, or is some integration of tools, templates, and processes needed? The temptation will be to let each team act on its own with some integrating task at the end to "glue" everything together.

About The Author
Robert Wysocki
Robert K. Wysocki, Ph.D. is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Agile Product & Project Management Practice. Bob is recognized throughout the industry as a strategic leader in project management. Among his many outstanding accomplishments, he is the author, or co-author, of numerous books, including Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme, Effective Project Management, 5-Phase Project Management, Effective and… Read More
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