RE: Teams Leaders what are they, and do we need them? - Extension from Re: Re: Do C-Level managers, and business

Laurent,

Just a quick background. From our Project Management SOP: a "project
manager" (re leader) acts in one or alternately all the following ways:

* Catalyst - making things happen
* Process helper - provide real time support for the team and
stakeholders
* Problem solver - listening actively to all
* Resource linker - coordinating the "right" people

It may be that this thread treats "leader" as a technical lead, and
maybe equates this with architect or chief programmer - but "leader" of
the team has many other roles as described above in our domain.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurent 

[>] snip

> Tell me more. I'm not sure what expectations I have, so I don't know
> that I /could/ be surprised or disappointed.
> 
> That's not quite true : I have expectations, which are set by a few
> real-life experiences in which the top management "team" was not a
> team at all, but a quite dysfunctional group. I'm discounting these
> experiences for the time being.
> 
> I'm also asking the question, I just now realize, as an indirect way
> of asking Glen how he defines "team".

[>] Our team definition is straight out of B-School dictionary.

"The team is a basic unit of performance. It melds together the skills,
experiences, and insights of several people. It is the natural
complement to individual initiative and achievement because it engenders
higher levels of commitment to common ends."

Here we have removed the semantics of the definition of teams (endless
books and articles debate this definition). Instead we tie the
definition of a team to performance. Teams and performance are
inseparable. A "true" team performs better than a collection of well
managed people. This occurs ONLY if there are specific results for which
the team is collectively responsible and provided the performance ethic
of the firm (org) demands those results.

So looking at XP the collective responsibility of the team to deliver
working code to the customer's specification can be the basis of a team.

Our senior management "team" collectively delivers business results to
our customer, so the generic "team" definition holds as well

Glen B. Alleman
> 


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