Project Team Development

Start with the team development maps

Begin with a mind map that brings together the materials and activities involved in developing a project team. One map covers the human resource management plan, project staff assignments and resource calendars, alongside interpersonal skills, training and team-building activities.

Another map includes roles and responsibilities, skills, training needs, a work plan and schedule assignments. Compare the maps to see how they group the material and which terms you want to study further.

Explore the Tuckman stages

Next, look at a mind map on the Tuckman ladder model. It lists the stages of team formation and development as forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning. The forming stage is described as a time when people are still working out their roles in the group.

Use the stages as a guide while you return to the broader team development maps. Notice where those maps include training, team-building activities and ground rules.

Use the flashcards alongside the maps

The Cross-Cutting Skills flashcards ask about project management skills, training methods and ways to motivate a project team. Read a card, think through your answer, then look back at the maps for related ideas. The maps include training and team building; one also mentions recognition and rewards.

This page has no quizzes, so the flashcards provide question-based practice alongside the visual resources.

Connect the topic to its unit

Project Team Development is a section of Project Resource and Team Management in Business administration and management (incl. project management). The maps connect team development with resource calendars, staff assignments and team performance assessment. Keep those connections in mind as you study the topic within its unit.

Pick a map and use the flashcards to check what you can recall.