What problems can appear within project team?

Problem 1 - Moral spirit: If moral spirit of project team is weak, it is reasonable to strengthen it in bottom-up way – to raise self-confidence of employees and provide them with additional support. If the moral spirit is strong, do not be sure that everything goes well — your team can simply have overstated self-appraisal.  

Problem 2 - Team staffing: The problems of project team can be caused by improperly selected staff members who do not possess all required skills and cannot fulfill their roles sufficiently.

Problem 3 – Inefficiency in management: Improperly established team organization and collaboration, poorly described roles, jobs and functions.

Problem 4 – Interpersonal issues: There are people psychologically mutually incompatible; they should work separately from each other or try to overcome their problems somehow, but all this can cost too much for a project.

Problem 5 – Lack of productivity: Some team members can show lack of productivity and efficiency in their individual performance and this can be caused by different reasons (for example sickness, poor organization of working place etc.), however it could be a symptom of some problems in workflow organization.

The management of team can be facilitated by using special software product which allows to plan and track employees productivity and efficiency. Such product can help timely disclose problems in team building and decide the ways to improve team organization.

VIP Task Manager is a time and task planning groupware which allows breaking-down projects into tasks, assigning tasks to executors, placing tasks into task groups, and tracking course of task performance in real-time regime.

VIP Task Manager is easy-to-use task management groupware which allows multiple users access one database via LAN and Internet. It features:

• Tasks (sales plans, business processes, procedures etc.) planning, reporting and tracking;
• Management of office employees, departments and small projects;
• Task List, Task Tree, Scheduler (Calendar) modes;
• Setting of timelines, priorities, tasks order and workloads;
• Common and individual schedule management;
• Time, workflow, productivity, KPI control;
• Customization of task attributes;
• Charts and exportable reports;
• Management of access rights;
• Real-time collaboration;

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