Project team

The project team is anyone who will be executing project work. Though in a strong matrix organization, some of the team may also be helping you plan. I know that the people who do the work know the work and are the best resources for me to turn to when developing my project management plan, its subsidiary plans, and baselines.

The project team can provide the following information:

• Duration estimates for tasks that they will be performing.
• The sequence that work needs to be performed in. This in turn helps with scheduling.
• In some cases, your project team will be able to provide cost estimates or procurement needs for materials and equipment.
• The team will be also be updating you on current project performance and working to implement corrective and preventative actions after they've been approved through formal change-control.

In some cases, you will need to acquire additional team members to help execute project work and they may come from functional departments or outside the organization itself. If you do find yourself negotiating for resources with functional departments, it is a good idea to understand the scope of work they will be performing, whether they're working full- or part-time on the project, and how they will be acquired and released on the project. If your project team is lacking the necessary number of humans to perform project work, that would be where the sponsor could be very helpful in helping to assign more resources.