INTRODUCTION: According to the business dictionary, a project team is a group of individuals assembled to perform activities that contribute toward

achieving a common task related goal. Many business operators will put together a project team consisting of skilled workers from the same or different function areas to work on an important project. It is also the group that is responsible for planning and executing the project. It consists of a Project Manager and a number of Project Team members, who are brought in to deliver their tasks according to the project schedule. The Project Manager is the person responsible for ensuring that the Project Team completes the project. The Project Manager develops the Project Plan with the team and manages the teams performance of project tasks. It is also the responsibility of the Project Manager to secure acceptance and approval of deliverables from the Project Sponsor and Stakeholders. The Project Manager is responsible for communication, including status reporting, risk management, escalation of issues that cannot be resolved in the team, and, in general, making sure the project is delivered in budget, on schedule, and within scope. The Project Team Members are responsible for executing tasks and producing deliverables as outlined in the Project Plan and directed by the Project Manager, at whatever level of effort or participation has been defined for them. According to Cornell Education, in larger projects, some Project Team members may serve as Team Leads, providing task and technical leadership, and sometimes maintaining a portion of the project plan. It means that an individual may have more the one responsibility on a certain project.

OBJECTIVES: 1. Learning and studying There should be a clear understanding of the study objectives: To determine what are the problems that broaden this issue, To discuss and evaluate of related topics of this problem, To give brief definition of the issue, To furnish recommendations to lighten up the matter and it can also fix the concerns of the said issue. This will lead in evaluating the problem to have the desired information and needed data for the research. It can also broaden up the content of the issue so it can give more knowledge of the topic. There is a wide range of possible study objectives: Determining the main concerns of the unencrypted sensitive data of data in motion and at rest, Getting the dilemmas in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives to give the appropriate recommendations and; Specifying the recommendations to establish the suitable conclusions. Through learning the problem we can know what are the needs of the issue. We can also study the related topics, so that we can explore more on the concerns itself to establish learning. This possible range can be our guide to help us what information are needed to make the research relative to one another and to relate each part of the study relay to every component.

2. To evaluate existing problems that are related to the issue This will help the researcher to understand more of the issue and relate the significant problems to establish recommendations. Evaluating the existing problems

can give knowledge more on the needs of the issues so that we can identify what are the proper solutions to be given.

3. To review the evidences that can affect the problem Gathering related facts that causes the issue can help us formulate suggestions because evidences can broaden our knowledge. For instance, in investigating crime evidences are gathered up and if those information can solve the crime. It can also be applied on doing research paper to give suggestions on how problems can be predetermined.

ISSUE: Working With a Team: Challenges For Project Managers A project sometimes requires skills that the project's contributors don't possess and the project manager is always dependent and having to rely on other people for success. Being judgemental is natural on the part of the project manager, to assess the quality of each members work. Judgments about individual performance are more common and less forgiving in projects than in business-as-usual operations. In project settings the expectations are high, the deadline is ambitious, the budget is fixed, and other people's ability to perform is tied more directly to your own performance. One person falling or being left behind can have a cascading effect on their team. Likewise, a team falling behind can have a gushing effect on other teams, easily resulting in schedule being delayed and cost overruns to the project and missed opportunities to the business. Most of the projects must be unique or different from other work and most of the time it results from distributing the project teams, Human brain is the most important resource in making substantial number of high-tech projects because it is just few of the forces making human resource management in projects a crucial success factor. These circumstances dare not only project team members' ability to work together, but also the capacity of the project manager to effectively handle human resources and to assist a collaborative work environment. The quantitative aspects of project management, such as scheduling, budgeting, and resource management, are supported by a large selection of tools and techniques, many of them based on operations research methodologies and integrated into commercially available software for project management. Many project teams are geographically dispersed, which means teams are scattered for having different responsibilities. Projects are inherently collaborative efforts. The very nature of projects is such that project teams are usually comprised of multiple team members. Often, project teams incorporate multiple organizations. Team

members can not only be employees, but also clients, vendors, sub-contractors, and other third parties. The entire project team sometimes belong to the same company or organization, yet they often work from different branches or different offices. Passing of information needs to be fast as possible because of todays rapid paced economy, even if the project team is in the same office. As the rise in outsourcing work and offshore development continues, project managers and executive management need to synchronize their work across multiple time zones. So, when the U.S. based team goes to sleep, and the team in Asia goes to work, they may login to the web-based project management solution to view their project, resource and task status. Companies that manage this asynchronous process well are excelling compared to their competitors. Also, clients are demanding more visibility and transparency into their projects' progress. Client-facing project teams that possess a collaborative software system to interact with their customers are selling this as a competitive advantage and winning business over their competition.

SCOPE: The scope of the project will be on the issue about working with a team. It will cater related issues, articles and factors that can be gathered for the research. The most common scope of the issue is inadequate skills for the project, there are required skills that some of the project contributors dont have. It may lead to assigning more responsibilities to other team member. Another one is assigning too many responsibilities to other people that may lead to multi-tasking that can prolong the task with prerequisites. It can result to lacking of accountability which can bring a project to a complete halt because most of the member of the team will avoid blame. It will be unproductive, which is the most common feature of flawed project management. When assigning different responsibilities to team members, team member roles are not clear. Communication insufficiency is the common factor of this issue because many project managers and team members do not provide enough information to people, along with the lack of an infrastructure or culture for good communication.

VOCABULARY: Project Manager - the person responsible for ensuring that the Project Team completes the project. Project Team - group of individuals assembled to perform activities that contribute toward achieving a common task related goal. Team Leads - provide task and technical leadership, and sometimes maintaining a portion of the project plan. Project Plan - is a formal document designed to guide the control and execution of a project. Outsourcing - practice used by different companies to reduce costs by transferring portions of work to outside suppliers rather than completing it internally. Offshore Development - is one type of IT outsourcing.

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Working With a Team: Challenges For Project Managers

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Kayla Mae B. Servigon BSIT 4-1