Assembling a Collaborative Project Team

Chapter 3Achieving the best possible start to a project

The ‘kick-starting’ process (the practice or project approach)

The practice approach

The project approach

Chapter overview

Chapter 1 set out the reasons why the early project stages are crucial. Chapter 2 considered the generic types of project team and how these might impact on a project. Before considering how to assemble a collaborative project team (Chapter 4) in response to the observations made in the earlier chapters, this chapter considers the importance of the ‘kick-starting’ process and the means of selecting the initial members of the project team. This process is crucial as these initial parties will be responsible for assembling the collaborative project team and ...