Task: Create Team Structure
This task defines project roles and allocates team members to those roles.
Disciplines: Project Management
Purpose
The purpose of this task is to identify project team roles and assign personnel to those roles.
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    Outputs
      Steps
      Review development process
      The development process defines the worker roles and the useful ways in which the roles can be defined to create teams. This reviews your process documentation for guidance.
      Review schedule
      The schedule identifies which tasks need to be performed and the resources (personnel) assigned to them.
      Determine key roles
      The key roles are the ones that have the most profound impact (negative or positive) on project success. This can vary to a degree based on the work items to be used in the project. In most cases, the architect and project leader are key roles. Other key roles can be determined from the risk management plan.
      Evaluate personnel for strenghts and weaknesses
      Projects that treat workers as interchangeable are far less efficient than ones that take advantage of workers’ individual strengths, weaknesses, and interests. Not every one has the skill to solve partial differential equations, construct an algorithm, or write a device driver in an assembly language. To be effective, you must assign roles on the basis of ability.
      Assign personnel to key roles
      The key roles have the most impact to the success of the project, so, in general, you will take great care in the assignment of workers to these roles.
      Evaluate proposed team structure in terms of schedule
      The team structure is formed to support the delivery of the product within the cost and schedule constraints. This step is focused on ensuring that you've done the best job of creating the project roles and filling them with the most appropriate staff. This step includes consideration of the schedule and resource availability constraints.
      Create and publish the team organization chart
      It is important that your team structure is known and easily accessible by all of the team members.