Project Team

Definition

Project Team

an overall team that contains and organizes all other teams on the project

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Project Team is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Endeavor Team
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The team-specific responsibilities of a Project Team are to:

• Fulfill the requirements of the contract.
• Provide organization to the project and the subordinate teams of the project.

A project team typically inherits the general team responsibilities from the team method component.

Subordinate Teams

A project team typically consists of the following subordinate teams:

• Management Team:
  • Project Management Team
  • Change Control Board
  • Configuration Management Team
  • Disaster Recovery Team
  • Emergency Response Team
  • Endeavor Debrief Team
• Strategy Team:
  • Digital Branding Team
  • Business Strategy Team
  • Technology Strategy Team
• Engineering Team:
  • Architecture Team
  • Database Team
  • Environments Team
  • Independent Test Team
  • Integration Team
  • Process Team
  • Quality Team
  • Requirements Team
  • SecurityTeam
  • Software Development Team
  • Training Team
  • User Experience Team
• Post-Development Team:
  • Content Management Teams
  • Maintenance Teams
  • Operations Teams
  • User Support Teams
  • Retirement Teams
• Evaluation Team:
  • Architecture Evaluation Team
  • Content Management Evaluation Team
  • Database Evaluation Team
  • Deployment Evaluation Team
  • Environments Evaluation Team
  • Hardware Evaluation Team
  • Management Evaluation Team
  • Requirements Evaluation Team
  • Retirement Evaluation Team
  • Software Evaluation Team
  • Strategy Evaluation Team
  • Test Evaluation Team
  • User Experience Evaluation Team
  • User Support Evaluation Team

Tasks

A Project Team typically performs the following tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Indirectly, all project-level tasks performed by its subordinate teams.

Work Products

A Project Team typically produces the following work products:

• Indirectly, all project work products produced by its subordinate teams.

Guidelines

• Document the organization of the project team using an organization chart.
• The composition of the project team varies over time as subordinate teams are staffed, perform their tasks, and then disband (possibly until they are needed again).
• The project team typically inherits the common team guidelines from the team method component.