Establish and maintain organizational rules and guidelines for structuring and forming integrated teams.

Operating rules and guidelines for the integrated teams define and control how teams interact to accomplish objectives. These rules and guidelines also promote the effective leveraging of the teams’ efforts, high performance, and productivity. Integrated team members must understand the standards for work and participate according to those standards.

Typical Work Products

1.    Rules and guidelines for the structuring and formation of integrated teams

Subpractices

1.    Establish rules and guidelines for structuring and forming integrated teams.

2.    Define the expectations, rules, and guidelines that will guide how the 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 input 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 (cost, schedule, and performance status), measures, and methods

·   Progress reporting measures and methods

3.    Maintain the rules and guidelines for structuring and forming integrated teams.