Value Focused Leadership: Picking the Right Project Team

While at the Agile 2007 Conference a couple of weeks ago, a project manager from a small development shop tracked me down and asked me the best way to organize their development organization. Not being a big fan of the word “best” (what works really well in one situation is quite average in another, hence making “best” very context-specific) I threw out my standby consulting answer: “It depends.” Then I asked some questions about their organization and what kind of work they typically do. Based on that, I provided them with some context-specific suggestions.

Afterwards, I thought that there are probably others who have the same question. So, given the caveats listed above, here are some thoughts on how to organize your organization to undertake development projects.

Since I can’t possibly know under what conditions readers of this article are working, I thought it best to describe some general characteristics usually exhibited by successful project teams, and provide ideas for adopting these characteristics…

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