Exam 11: The Project Team

A personal relationship between two people takes time to develop and teams evolve through various stages of development.

Other participants are allowed to make comments, supportive or judgmental.

Barriers to valuing diversity include awareness and understanding.

In the stage of team development, members express their individuality as opposed to team allegiance.

Effective team members are not problem identifiers or problem solvers.

should develop the planning information or implement the best solution to a problem.

In the phase of team development, relationships have become settled.

Before team members select a solution to a problem, they should make sure that they have explored as broad a range of options and ideas as possible.

Project members should bring possible ethical situations to the attention of the project manager.

Having a common goal such as the project objective can

Individuals should simply state an idea; not discuss, justify, or try to sell it.

If it is handled properly, conflict helps team building.

Differences can lead to more creative, faster, and higher-quality problem solving and decision making.

In the stage of team development, the team is highly committed and eager to achieve the project objective.

In the stage of team development, individuals do a lot of questioning in the forming stage: What is our purpose? Who are the other team members? What are they like?

Project constraints regarding the work scope, quality levels, budget, and schedule must be hidden.

In the approach, team members search for an intermediate position.

Any diversity issues or conflicts should be addressed immediately so they can be resolved before they fester and ''explode'' at a later time.

A project team is more than a group of individuals.

In the approach, the split solution may not be the optimal one.