This is NJ here, the host of the NJ podcast. And this is thriving project management, Thursdays. This is part of the everyday series where we get you to become the best project manager in the world by sharing thoughts and. Project management is important. As joint gum said, operations keeps the lights on strategy. She provides light at the end of the tunnel, but it is project management. That is a train engine that drives the organization forward. And everybody wants to be a project manager, but not everybody wants to do the hard work. Project management is not easy. It's not simplistic. It is tough. It is difficult. At the end of the day, it is worth it because we love project management. Now we love project management and on the show today, we're going to talk about fixed teams, create better results. Fixed teams, create better results. As a project management professional, you are in the business of delivering through other people. You are in the business of delivering through other people. It doesn't matter how well you can do something. How well you can code how well you can write a text, how you, while you can design things, it's about being able to empower a team and to be able to lead a team towards a common objective. Oftentimes, you can find yourself initially in situations where you are leading multiple projects and multiple teams, and you find itself in a matrix structure in an organization where you pull resources from different departments and from different managers. And you might end up in a situation where we have two developers from one team and three developers from another team, and then you'll have another project where they are also partially allocated to another project that is not uncommon. And it's something that happens. I've been in a situation I've known multiple people who've been in that situation. The debate was raging as to is, does a team perform better when they are in separate locations or separate projects, or this attention is split between different projects and my experience, and some of the literature out there fixed teams create, create better results because when a team gets together on a project, they need to go through, uh, the, the. The norming forming storming at performing and a journey phases of, of team chemistry. It, if you have a team that's is part of multiple. If you have a project team, that's a part of multiple teams that phase to get them to the point of performing and I can a well oiled machine becomes a bit tougher. Why to fix teams creates better results. They create have a better sense of stability. A better sense of stability. They have more time to go through the, the forming, no forming, storming, norming, performing and adjoining phases. Uh, building team chemistry, they get to know each other better. They be, uh, be able to assess each other out. They understand each other's well preferences, and it provides a sense of certainty, especially when you deliver on projects in an environment where there's a lot of uncertainty. And if you have a team that's, uh, not, uh, That as even more complexity and even more uncertainty to the project. Um, so in a team that's fixed on one project is, has more stupidity. Uh, Tia fixed team also has time to create the chemistry. If they've got more time to create this, the chemistry and understand. What their learning styles are, what their working styles are, what their cultural preferences are, what the standards of development and delivery are. And then after some time they can feel as if they're actually part of a family and they can leverage office each other's brilliance and they are able to foster the strong team. Chemistry. Another reason why I believe that fixed teams create better results is they have a unified goal and culture unified goals and culture, a team that is fixed and has a set time together can dictate how well they work together, where they're going to have the meetings, how they're going to have their needs and how they're going to work. And the. What their culture is to understand what their values are. And they're not distracted being pulled in multiple directions because it can get tough to the point where you, as a project manager have this team and you set the goals and the values. And the culture and the strategic intent for the team will take, may take a while for them to be allied with it. And then if they, once they get aligned with it, you don't want them to be distracted and move into multiple teams. So those are my three reasons why I believe that fixed teams create better results. They have a sense of stability. Yeah. At the time to create more chemistry and they have a unified goals and a culture, it may not always be possible for you to have a fixed team, especially in this world of immense complexity, intense competition, and accelerated change. It becomes far more difficult as we go along. However, if you can advocate for having a fixed team and it is within your realm of influence. It would be a good idea to advocate for a fixed team because you have more stability, more time to create chemistry and unified goals, as well as the culture. I hope that you enjoyed this episode of thriving project management. Thursdays. We talked about fixed teams create better results. Uh, if you enjoy this episode, please like share comment and subscribe Libya. No. What you think if you're interested in any merchandise, head over to the website. Have a fantastic thriving project management Thursdays advocate for having fixed teams because fixed teams create better results. And remember that everybody wants to be a project manager when not everybody wants to do the hard work budget management is not easy. It's not simplistic, especially when you make. Well teams and advocating for a fixed team. It can be difficult, but as joy gum said, operations keeps the lights on strategy keeps strategy provides light at the end of the tunnel. And, but it is posted management. That is a train engine that drives the organization forward. Have a fantastic project management Thursdays at Thursday, and I will see you on the next episode.