July 1996
Intermediate to advanced
680 pages
19h 53m
English
Contents
13.1 Team-Structure Considerations
13.2 Team Models
13.3 Managers and Technical Leads
Related Topics
Teamwork: Chapter 12
EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE SKILLED, MOTIVATED, hard-working people, the wrong team structure can undercut their efforts instead of catapulting them to success. A poor team structure can increase development time, reduce quality, damage morale, increase turnover, and ultimately lead to project cancellation. Currently, about one-third of all team projects are organized in ineffective ways (Jones 1994).

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