ABSTRACT
At this stage of the project, the team has conducted extensive planning to ensure the project’s success and is typically anxious to begin executing that plan. It is, however, important to do some additional planning, in part to avoid the possibility of the team’s slipping into panic as the reality of the project’s magnitude becomes apparent. Although the previous planning has been focused on the project, these planning steps are designed to increase the team’s probability for success. Chapter 11 outlined the four stages of team dynamics, pointing out that a team reaches the more productive stages of norming and performing only after it has established clearly defined roles, responsibilities, and processes-or what could be called ground rules. This chapter discusses those ground rules.
