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Chapter 3. Effective Team Building - Pg. 73

73 Chapter 3. Effective Team Building If everyone is moving forward together, success takes care of itself. --Anonymous Projects are organized to accomplish complex tasks that cannot be handled by lone individuals. As projects become, increasingly, the building blocks of organizational strategy, multidisciplinary teams are replacing individuals as the basic building blocks of organizations. Project success depends upon how well participants can work together to accomplish objectives within scope, time, cost and quality constraints. Project managers must have the skills required to build effective project teams. This is particularly true because most projects are organized in a matrix fashion where the two-boss problem poses additional challenges in obtaining real commitments from team members who may only work for the project part time; and whose individual objectives and interests may or may not be in line with project objectives. Team building is a process of getting a diverse mix of individuals to work together effectively as one