P03 Product Design and Development Team Flashcards
What is a team?
group of people with different skills and different tasks, who work together on a project, service, or goal, with a meshing of functions and mutual support
What are the 7 characteristics of effective teams?
- purpose, mission is known and understood by all
- Communication is open, direct,honest
- Leadership is available
- Regular review of team performing toward achieving its purpose
- agreed organizational structure
- Adequate resources are available
- Synergy exists
What is the most crucial success factor in project management?
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION! to all stakeholders.
One out of five projects are unsuccessfull due to communication.
What is indeed the biggest challenge for a project manager?
The diversity within a project team which can be cultural, geographical, organizational, functional, age related, level of education
What is the power/interest grid approach?
It is a tool project manager can use to better tailor the communication plan. In this approach, the stakeholders are grouped based on their level of authority (‘power’) and their level of concern (‘interest’).
What are teambuilding goals?
to have an adaptive team including:
• Cognitively Engaged
• Emotionally Engaged
• Sets & Exceeds Stretch Goals
• Expends Energy on Positive Interactions
• Fully Engages Customers –Exceeds Expectations
What are the three important things for a effective teambuilding activity?
- fun factor
- opportunity to work together
- constructive outcome
What is important regarding the fun factor as part of a effective teambuilding activity?
Teambuilding is to help the team members to connect with one another, and they’re much more likely to open up if they’re having a good time. The Teambuilding event should be something with entertainment value.
What is important regarding “the opportunity to work together” as part of a effective teambuilding activity?
It’s important to pick activities each team member can get fully involved in.
Team problem-solving activities can be ideal for this.
What is important regarding “a constructive outcome” as part of a effective teambuilding activity?
The team members should have a chance to get to know each other better.
The best team building activities helps to achieve specific goals, so it’s useful to think about the outcome the event should have.
What is Henry Fords statement regarding working together?
Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
Henry Ford
Name at least 5 management functions that can be found in todays industrial design and development projects.
- Project Management
- Cost Management
- Engineering Management
- Validation/Testing Management
- Industrialization Management
- Production Management
- Warranty Management
- Purchasing Management
- Sub System Management
- System Performance Management
- Logistic Support Management
- Change Management
- Configuration Management
- Maintenance Management
- Safety Assurance Management
- …
