Establish and maintain organizational rules and guidelines for the structure, formation, and operation of integrated teams.
In an acquisition organization, integrated teams are useful not just in the acquirer’s organization but between the acquirer and supplier and among the acquirer, supplier, and other
relevant stakeholders, as appropriate. Integrated teaming may be especially important in a system of systems environment.
Operating rules and guidelines for integrated teams define and control how teams are created and how they interact to accomplish objectives. Integrated team members must understand the
standards for work and participate according to those standards.
Structuring integrated teams involves defining the number of teams, the type of each team, and how each team relates with the others in the structure. Forming integrated teams involves
chartering each team, assigning team members and team leaders, and providing resources to each team to accomplish its work.
Typical Work Products
1. Rules and guidelines for structuring and forming integrated teams
Subpractices
1. Establish and maintain empowerment mechanisms to enable timely decision making.
In a successful teaming environment, clear channels of responsibility and authority must be established. Issues can arise at any level of the organization when integrated teams assume too
much or too little authority and when it is unclear who is responsible for making decisions. Documenting and deploying organizational guidelines that clearly define the empowerment of integrated teams can prevent these
issues.
2. Establish rules and guidelines for structuring and forming integrated teams.
Organizational process assets can help the project to structure and implement integrated teams. Such assets may include the following:
· Team structure guidelines
· Team formation guidelines
· Team authority and responsibility guidelines
· Guidelines for establishing lines of communication and authority
· Team leader selection criteria
3. Define the expectations, rules, and guidelines that guide how integrated teams work collectively.
These rules and guidelines establish organizational practices for consistency across integrated teams and can include the following:
· How interfaces among integrated teams are established and maintained
· How assignments are accepted
· How resources and inputs are accessed
· How work gets done
· Who checks, reviews, and approves work
· How work is approved
· How work is delivered and communicated
· Reporting chains
· Reporting requirements (e.g., cost, schedule, and performance status), measures, and methods
· Progress reporting measures and methods
4. Maintain the rules and guidelines for structuring and forming integrated teams.
5. Establish and maintain organizational guidelines to help team members balance their team and home organization
responsibilities.
A home organization is the part of the organization to which team members
are assigned when they are not on an integrated team. A home organization may be called a functional organization, home
base, home office, or direct organization.