6 Building a Team

Building the right team is critical to the success of executing the project plan. As a PM, you could create the greatest plan in the world, but if your team is not capable of executing the plan, you will not succeed. What would happen if a football coach built a great game plan—but asked a high school team to execute it against an NFL championship team? Even with a solid plan and intense effort, the high school players could not compete against a professional team. To build a strong project team, you have to recruit the right talent, create a unified vision, set expectations, and tell the stakeholders how the team will function.

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