This document discusses team projects and project management. It covers key aspects of projects including goals, resources, and constraints. It also discusses professional project management practices and processes. Several theories related to teams and personality types are explained, including Tuckman's team stages, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and Belbin's team roles. The document provides guidance on creating a project plan, identifying objectives and outcomes, and using collaboration tools like Google Drive. Effective communication is highlighted as ultimately key to project success.

1. Team Projects
Karen O’Hara
November, 2012

2. A Project is…
• a temporary endeavor
• focused on achieving a goal
• an allocation of resources: time, money,
people, equipment…
• bound by constraints: time, budget, scope

3. Professional Project Management
• Organizations: Project
Management Institute (PMI)
• Body of Knowledge: PMBOK
• Software: Microsoft Project
Server, others
http://ebookee.org

4. PMBOK Process Groups, a.k.a.
project lifecycle
Wikimedia Commons

5. Theories of teams &
personality

6. Tuckman’s Team Stages (1965)
• Forming
• Storming
• Norming
• Performing
• Adjourning
(added 1977)

7. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
(MBTI)
1962
Measures psychological
preferences in how people
perceive the world &
make decisions
•Grew out of theories proposed by Carl Jung
(1920s) and Katharine Cook Briggs & her
daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers (1940s)
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator

8. Learning about your own style

10. Belbin’s Team Roles (1981)
Dr. Meredith Belbin & his research team at
Henley Management College observed that
•Success for a team was dependent on clusters of
behavior, or “Team Roles”
– Team Roles mark a tendency to behave, contribute &
interrelate with others in a particular way
•Different individuals displayed different Team Roles
to varying degrees
www.belbin.com

11. 9 Team Roles
Coordinator (Chairperson): sets agenda, tracks,
coordinates
Resource Investigator: finds new info, new ideas
Team Worker: looks for his/her part, gets work done
Shaper: focuses on action tasks, completing project
Implementor (Company worker): turns plans into
actions
Completer/Finisher: detail-oriented, schedule-aware
Monitor/Evaluator: IDs flaws, focuses on outcomes
Plant: creative, focuses on big picture
Specialist: adds depth, masters a specific topic/area

12. Making a project plan

13. Identify Mission & Objectives
• Start with a one-sentence description of
the project’s main goal
• Break main goal into smaller pieces
(objectives)

14. Tie Objectives to Outcomes
Using the objectives, devise outcomes
Example:
Objective: To educate nurses about risk of
infection in nursing home populations
Outcome: Create a laminated informational
poster that will hang in staff break room

15. Google Drive & collaboration
• Use as a substitute for MS Office
• Upload MS Office docs & collaborate on
them
• Download Google Docs items to Word,
Excel, etc.
• Control who can view and edit your docs
• Track versions & see who has participated.

16. More things to do with Google Docs
• See who is currently viewing/editing the
document (and open a chat if desired)
• Add comments, similar to MS Word “track
changes”
• Create a simple online survey or form that
will gather responses into a spreadsheet
for easy analysis
• Organize docs by folder
• Store large files in the “cloud” for free
Take a look

17. The ultimate secret to project
success
COMMUNICATION
• Planning
• Common vision (sharing ideas,
setting goals, understanding scope)
• Time management (running
meetings, setting schedules)

18. The End
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