Question

What are the best ways to motivate a team and what are the worst ways; List three techniques to reduce conflict? Describe the differences between a technical lead and a functional lead? How are they similar?

Answer 1

• Studies show that the best way to motivate a team of  individuals are inspired by appreciation, accomplishment, the job itself, accountability, development and the opportunity to learn new skills.

• The worst methods of empowering team members include imposing unrealistic deadlines, failing to recognize good effort, allowing low-quality output, monetarily praising all team members regardless of the quality of their work, failing to include team members in crucial project decisions and offering poor working conditions.

• Techniques to reduce conflicts are specifying the responsibilities on the project, keeping team members responsible for their assigned tasks, establishing comprehensive operating procedures and assuring that the team members recognize them, and each team member adhere to the protocols.

• Technical lead is a member of the project team who leads the engineers and more technically oriented project personnel.
• The functional Lead is a member of a team that oversees the team's infrastructure and market analysts.

• Both Technical and Functional lead report to the project manager, and they are responsible for managing, monitoring and organizing the activities of their appointed team members.