Category: Project Team

The grade 9 wants to do everything himself. He simply does not trust us. Every time we use certain equations to come up with a solution, he must review everything we did in microscopic detail. He has to approve everything.

Frank continuously criticized Paula’s performance as a project manager and Frank’s attitude was beginning to affect the performance of some of the other team members. Frank was lowering the morale of the team. It was obvious that Paula had to take some action.

Thanks for trying. But if I had to choose one of your co-workers to take another look at this project, who might have even half a chance of making it happen? Who would you suggest? I just want to make sure that we have left no stone unturned,” he said rather glumly. Mark’s words caught Jack by surprise.

In the past, there has not been enough emphasis on project management. At one time, Apache even assigned trainees to perform project coordination. All failed miserably. At one point, sales dropped to an all-time low, and cost overruns averaged 20– 25 percent per production line.

Macon, a tire test equipment company, faced internal departmental conflicts, particularly between its engineering and production teams. As a result, customers began overseeing Macon’s deliverables directly. The president acknowledged the urgent need for enhanced project management, but the solution remained uncertain.

Lakes Automotive adopted a nine-phase project management methodology, earning acclaim and a quality award. In 2000, they bought Pelex Automotive Products with its five-phase project management methodology. The challenge was merging these two methodologies for their joint staff.

Etat is a public organization that offers services to both individuals and businesses. At its establishment 20 years ago, Etat chose a hierarchical organizational structure with departments taking care of the work tasks. However, since a new manager took over the responsibility for Etat two years ago, more and more tasks have been organized as projects.

Lars Bugge has been employed in the consultancy firm Consult AS for about 4 years. Over these four years, he has followed the internal career ladder, from being a trainee, through the team leader role, to now being appointed as a project manager. Lars had actually enjoyed his role as a team leader very much, but the management at Consult AS had on several occasions mentioned that they saw great career opportunities for him in the company.

Harald Seim has been a project manager for over ten years in an offshore company. He is known by his colleagues to be a tough leader, but at the same time also a person who gets things done. Harald believes that his employees should only receive the information they need to do their job, neither more nor less information.

Google is a well-known American technology company with approximately 140,000 employees. Google’s People Operations (HR department) aimed to conduct a project that identified the characteristics of a successful team, initiating “Project Aristotle” in 2012. The working hypothesis was that employees could perform better by working together than individually.