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.
By distributing the workload you will get more satisfaction. Interaction with other people results in higher enthusiasm and creativity. Just think about how an idea grows while you talk to different people, everyone with his own personal attributes and knowledge. The diversity of ideas raises the reliability and quality of the final product. Making better decisions decreases the risk of failures and you will finish your project faster. A nice side effect is that you get to know your co-workers much better - maybe theres your new friend sitting just a room away.
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.
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.
By distributing the workload you will get more satisfaction. Interaction with other people results in higher enthusiasm and creativity. Just think about how an idea grows while you talk to different people, everyone with his own personal attributes and knowledge. The diversity of ideas raises the reliability and quality of the final product. Making better decisions decreases the risk of failures and you will finish your project faster. A nice side effect is that you get to know your co-workers much better - maybe theres your new friend sitting just a room away.
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.
About the Author:
Dominik writes for soft-evolution, a software vendor, specialized on team scheduling software. soft-evolution is developer of an Team management scheduler which addresses the needs of small and mid-sized companies.
