Allocate requirements, responsibilities, tasks, and interfaces to teams in the integrated team structure.

This allocation of requirements to integrated teams is done before any teams are formed to verify that the integrated team structure is workable and covers all the necessary requirements, responsibilities, authorities, tasks, and interfaces. Once the structure is confirmed, integrated team sponsors are chosen to establish the individual teams in the structure.

Typical Work Products

1.    Responsibilities allocated to each integrated team

2.    Work product requirements, technical interfaces, and business (e.g., cost accounting and project management) interfaces each integrated team will be responsible for satisfying

3.    List of integrated team sponsors

Subpractices

1.    Allocate the tasks, responsibilities, and work products to be delivered, and the associated requirements and interfaces to the appropriate integrated teams.

Business, management, and other nontechnical responsibilities and authorities for each integrated team are necessary elements to proper team function. Integrated team responsibilities and authorities are normally developed by the project and are consistent with established organization practices.

2.    Check that the distribution of requirements and interfaces covers all specified product requirements and other requirements.

In the event that complete coverage of requirements is not achieved, corrective action should be taken to redistribute requirements or to alter the integrated team structure.

3.    Designate the sponsor for each integrated team.

An integrated team sponsor is a manager (individual or team) who is responsible for establishing and providing resources to an integrated team, monitoring its activities and progress, and taking corrective action when needed. A sponsor may manage one or many teams. Team sponsors can be project managers.