How to form a team, part 1

Since I started attending seminars with the great Italian coach Patrizio Paoletti, I have been trying to discover the keys that stand behind success stories. Whether it's a small change of habit, the way of a poor man to richness or helping mankind.

Last week I came across such an idea which I sense has more to, than what I understand and will present here.

When you start a project you either do everything by yourself or you take all the decisions by yourself. Either way, all responsibility is yours and all the success and failure too.

(during this post, you are BO)

After a while, you gather up a team with different skills:

This time, you are still the manager of the project but you are also a programmer. You now have more responsibilities under the high responsiblity of "Fulfill the project's goals":

1. Make the team co-op toward success.
   
2. Responsibility for Claudia's quality of work.
   Claudia is a less experienced programmer than you and thus you have the responsibility for her current work and for her growth and evolution as a programmer.

After a while, you hire more:


You no longer program but you are still managing.

Derek, Cindy and Joe are the most experienced experts in their fields and thus each of them has the cross-responsibility for his field. Tom for design, Derek for QA and Joe for programming. They are Field Managers.

Paris and Dave are project managers you hired and have the responsibility for each project's success. They are Project Managers.

You, however, have the higher responsibility for Paris and Dave success in their duty and their improvement.

What is the third dimension of this Matrix? Will.

Each person in this matrix has a skill that for which he was hired: Programmer, Designer, QA or Manager. Each person in this matrix has a level of management skills, hopefully the better managers actually get to hold this title as Project Managers or Field Managers.

The third point that each person in this matrix relies-on is his will. Motivation, higher goal or quest - the reason for which I do what I do. Whether it is in order to feed my family or to fulfill my curiosity of the profession, I must be motivated. Yes!!!

Kudos to Koby Menachemi for this insight


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