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.” Home organizations are often responsible for the career growth of their members (e.g., performance appraisals and training to maintain functional and discipline expertise).

In an IPPD environment, reporting procedures and rating systems assume that members’ responsibilities are focused on the integrated team, not on the home organization. However, the responsibility of integrated team members to their home organizations is also important, specifically for process implementation and improvement. Workloads and responsibilities should be balanced between projects and functions, and career growth and advancement. Organizational mechanisms should exist that support the home organization while aligning the workforce to meet business objectives in a teaming environment.

Sometimes teams persist beyond their productive life in organizations that do not have a home organization for the team members to return to after the integrated the team is dissolved. Therefore, there should be guidelines for disbanding the integrated teams and maintaining home organizations.

Typical Work Products

1.    Organizational guidelines for balancing team and home organization responsibilities

2.    Performance review process that considers both functional supervisor and team leader input

Subpractices

1.    Establish guidelines for home organization responsibilities that promote integrated team behavior.

2.    Establish guidelines for team management responsibilities to ensure integrated team members report appropriately to their home organizations.

3.    Establish a performance review process that considers input from both home organization and integrated team leaders.