Skills   Work organisation

Teamwork, project or process management,
virtual teams:
There is always one crucial question:
Is there a unity of that which should be united?

Or do virtual teams produce a patchwork because they cannot find common ground?
Or are tasks in processes still divided at cutting lines rather than seams?
Or are tasks (with cutting lines!) still divided where only a project would do justice to the complexity of the entire job?
Or do ”conveyor belts” produce hold-ups instead of products where only teamwork would really keep things moving?

The times are long gone when you could reduce complexity by simply cutting it into pieces.

But be careful: Much too often even the most correct idea organisation developers might have does not really come alive in the end. Is project management, teamwork, process management, virtual teamwork "worn" as the new garment because it was ordered, because it is en vogue – and below it is still the old gear?

1.) What about the acceptance?
- Incomprehensible solution: no acceptance.
- Comprehensible solution: superficial
acceptance.
- Those affected become involved: that's
better – even if it's old hat.
- Letting those affected have a go as
creators: How far can you go to guarantee
increased identification, more robust
practicality?

2.) And if it is really wanted by everyone then
(and not only top-down): anyone is only able
if qualification helped them to get to their
feet. Teamwork, project work, thinking and
acting in processes means fundamental
retraining for anyone only beginning with it.

A few other questions on that:
1. Projects: Competing with everyday work?
Co-existence? Peaceful? Or co-operation?
Goals and resources: interaction or
interference?
2. Groupwork: Sometimes also causes heated
friction where there has not even been a point
of contact before. Is there already a mature
way of dealing with conflicts?
3. Processes: What comes first for you –
structure or process? Is the tail wagging
the dog?
4. Virtual teams: Have you already found an
effective equivalent for the good old
"We should have a get-together"?
5. And finally: Sometimes things only work if
you take it as a rule to break the rules. Have
you checked that?