Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Why You Should Work In A Team

By Dominik Sapinski

When you and your co-workers are still working alone, you should think about building up a team and start working together.

In todays specialized world no one can be an expert in all areas of a whole product lifecycle. Therefore, when its still only you who is planning, organizing and realizing a project you should split the process into different parts and delegate every task to a person who has the best skills for it.

A result of distributing the workload is more satisfaction. Working together raises everyones enthusiasm and creativity. Being involved in a development process and getting the positive feedback of other team players is essential for a good self confidence. People do their best, when they like what they do. Including personal attributes and knowledge provides into a higher diversity of ideas and raises the reliability and quality of the final product. Talking to others prevents failures and results in faster project conclusion. You will get more into touch with all other team members and maybe your next good friend is sitting just a desk away from you.

Team building isnt just putting a group of people together and let them do their work. The most important in a team is the mission. Every team member should identify himself with the project and see himself as an important and necessary part of it. There are always shy people who fear to include their thoughts and ideas. And there are the guys who know everything better and try to do their one man show. Working in a team means to give everyone the chance to be productive.

A good communication platform can ease the start of a project. Everyone should be able to talk to all others and include his input. Access to project tasks, notes or messages should be visible to all members which ensures that everyone knows about the actual project state. Misunderstandings will be avoided and the project finished faster.

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