Determine Need and Select the Project Manager

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives

Overview/Description
 How do you make a cross-functional team work? You need to know where to start and how to find the people who can help you. This course will help you assess those situations that call for a cross-functional team, how to create the project proposal, and how to select the project team manager.

Target Audience
 Team leaders, project managers, supervisors and managers.

Expected Duration
2.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Determining the Need

  • recognize the value of a structured approach to forming cross-functional teams.
  • identify the characteristics of a cross-functional team.
  • identify the reasons why cross-functional teams are formed.
  • identify the structure to make a cross-functional team work successfully.
  • identify key items while proposing the formation of a cross-functional team.

    • Selecting the Project Manager

  • recognize the value of both, project manager and project sponsor, in supporting the cross functional team throughout the entire project.
  • identify the role of a project sponsor given project situations.
  • identify the role of a project manager given project situations.
  • identify, from a series of interviews, the best project manager candidate.

    • Course Number: TEAM0121