10.5. The Manage Project Team Process

The Manage Project Team process (Figure 10.10) includes tracking team member performance, providing feedback on performance, and resolving issues and coordinating changes to enhance project performance. The process involves combination of skills with special emphasis on communication, conflict management, negotiation, and leadership. Project managers provide challenging assignments to team members and provide recognition for high performance. As you may know, project management skills that relate to developing teams are quite different from those that relate to managing them.

10.5.1. The Tool Used in the Manage Project Team Process: Power

Within the context of a project, project managers serve as primary sources of power. Power may be referred to as the ability to influence the behavior of others, here, other team members. Effective use of power can help project managers favorably influence project outcomes. In the same vein, project managers would need to understand the power of other project stakeholders and devise means to using their powers to effect project success. There are different types of power available for use to project managers.