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9.4 Manage Project Team The process of tracking team member performance, providing feedback, resolving issues, and managing changes to optimize project performance. Simple Version: Day to day management of the team. |
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Inputs Project staff assignments Project management plan Team performance assessments Performance reports Organizational process assets Tools and Techniques Observation and conversation Project performance appraisals Conflict management Issue log Interpersonal skills Outputs Organizational process assets Change requests Project management plan updates |
Inputs Project staff assignments Project management plan Team performance assessments Performance reports Organizational process assets Tools and Techniques Observation and conversation Project performance appraisals Conflict management Issue log Interpersonal skills Outputs Organizational process assets Change requests Project management plan updates The PMBOK presents some great ideas for team management and promotion. They focus on understanding individual goals and trying to provide opportunities for people to progress in these directions. Agile methods provide many opportunities to try new roles and approaches. Due to the shorter release cycles if someone wants to try a, say, QA role this could be done over a one month or two month period much easier than on traditional project that is not scheduled to do the full spectrum of QA work until much later in the project. Biologists interested in genetics study mayflies because their lifecycle is just weeks. Agile methods give equally short time periods for experimentation and feedback to team members which most people find more rewarding and responsive. |
Leading a Team That’s Part Machine: 5) AI Agent Impacts on Project Management
This is the 5th and last installment in my series about Leading a Team that’s Part Machine. The earlier articles are available here: Introduction to the series and why the future will likely include hybrid human / AI teams What constitutes a real agent and how most current ‘agents’ lack the agency to act Agent frameworks, API tokens and local AI: the infrastructure that runs agents Agentic pipelines and orchestration: getting agents to do meaningful work beyond what GenAI tools can do for us today This article explores how to integrate AI Agents into regular teamwork and their likely impacts on the future of project management. To recap, I started my experiment by building AI agents 6 months ago to
