Policy Now
I think all organization should have a policy of team work / collaboration. As we have discussed previously, organizations are made of people. Only thru working together can an organization be in a competitive role and survive the market. I like working in teams and collaborating with member to achieve the end goal. A team’s success is the department/organization’s success. And if an organization is successful, they are the leader in their industry and market.
We cannot get the team we always want, but we must strive to work with the team we got. There is always someone, lazy, not team player or just don’t like anyone – but this is where good leaders come in play. They can get everyone involved and assign project tasks in a way that get all excited – even the I-don’t-like-teams people.
My company is one of the leading advocates of team collaboration. Recently, we had to migrate gigabits of data (including application testing, new hardware and new processes for access, etc) from Phoenix office servers to the newly built center in Hartford, Connecticut. This is not an easy task. Our department was responsible for our application and we worked with the project management team to coordinate the testing and verification of the application on the new platform. The date and time and who should be testing had to be finalized before the migration. We had weekly meeting with many other departments. Each department has their own share of responsibilities of testing and verification, but all had to coordinate their tasks and activities to ensure proper migration with no issues. Of course I have not ran into an project that had ‘no issues’, but given the size and the number of people involved, the process went fairly smooth.
If a department is made of people and an organization is made up of departments – a project is successful only if the teams within each department are cohesive and collaborating within. No one department or person can claim to know nor can work to get project task done – without teamwork. The success of any company relies on the good work of people who make it.