Draft of Project Team Quality Model in Traditional Project Management

Abstract

A paradox is observed in the state of art of the project team quality in project management. All specialists recognize the exceptional importance of the parameter “quality” for the final result of the project. On the one hand, one can easily find definitions of project quality, quality of product of the project, quality of the project management processes, and so on. On the other hand, a huge number of bibliographical sources considers the project team functioning, as a sine qua non condition of the project success. The notion “project team quality” is quasi absent in the literature. In the paper an approach is proposed to fill in – partially – this gap, in the form of a proposal of the guidelines, which define the project team quality and should allow to measure it. Consecutively, literature review of the success of the project and success of the project management, project team work, leadership, selection of team’s members and project team dynamics are presented. The main part of the paper consists of guidelines for the quality model of the project team: general assumptions, proposed definition and openness of the model to measure the quality of the team. The paper has a conceptual character. Its objective is to show the possibility to define the project team quality process, which ensures not only the optimal level of the team quality, but it will also allow to undertake valuable managerial decisions during the project life cycle. Keywords—project team; quality of project team; model of project team quality; project team quality measure