Project Team Development (PMBOK 2000)

Overview/Description
 "Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success," said Henry Ford. The "Project Team Development (PMBOK 2000)" course will show you how to work together and build a highly successful project team. The emphasis is on people and how they can be organized to increase their overall effectiveness as individuals, as project teams, and as members of your organization. This course will aid you in team creation, implementation, and leadership style. This course is aligned with "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge " (PMBOK ® Guide), 2000 edition, published by the Project Management Institute (PMI ®).

Target Audience
 This series is targeted specifically to project managers, project team members, functional managers with employees assigned to project teams, project stakeholders, any team manager or member interested in project management, executives committed to their organization's growth, managers required to take on new challenges, and top managers with vision.

Expected Duration
3.0 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Overview of Project Team Development

  • recognize the benefits of building an effective project team.
  • apply techniques to ensure healthy team dynamics.
  • apply procedures for effective team building in a given situation.

    • Inputs to Team Development

  • recognize the importance of understanding the inputs to team development.
  • identify how project staff is an input to team development.
  • identify the information included in a project plan.
  • identify how a staffing management plan is an input to team development.
  • identify how performance reports are inputs to team development.
  • identify how external feedback is an input to team development.

    • Tools and Techniques for Team Development

  • recognize the value of using the tools and techniques for team development.
  • determine if the team-building activities are appropriate for the scenario, based on the team-building guidelines.
  • identify how collocation facilitates team building.
  • match activities in a given situation with the appropriate training methods.
  • identify the appropriate general management skills for team development, given a situation.
  • choose the guidelines that were followed in the reward and recognition system.

    • Outputs from Team Development

  • identify the advantages of understanding the outputs from team development.
  • identify how effective team development can improve performance.
  • identify why individuals should provide input to performance appraisals.

    • Course Number: PROJ0473