A team is a group of individuals working toward a common goal. Your team will include people from your organization, suppliers, clients, and the project sponsor, each of whom bring their own skills to the team.
As the project manager, you must ensure that the team members recognize the skills of the other team members and the ways in which team members depend on each other.
When a group of individuals truly becomes a team, they are committed to the team's values and objectives. They learn to work well together, they enjoy working together, and most importantly they produce the high-quality results that are key to a successful project.
Organization Types
The type of organization you work in affects the project manager’s ability to deliver a project successfully. The project manager must understand the challenges involved in managing a project within various organizational structures and must anticipate that over the life of a project the organizational structure might change. There are three types of organizational structures: functional, projectized, and matrix. These are described on the following page.