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Team Development Plan

A description of a training program for project team members for enhancing their skills both in the work required for the project as well as in working together as a project team. [D03326]

Team Leader

Person in charge of a smaller group and responsible for carrying out a specific task. [D05149]

Person responsible for managing a stage team. [D02005]

The team leader is the interface between project management and developers. The team leader is responsible for ensuring that a task is allocated and monitored to completion. The team leader is responsible for ensuring that development staff follow project standards, and adhere to project schedules. [D04779]

Team Leadership

Leadership may be subdivided into •Leadership Techniquesê i.e. methods used for motivation and •Leadership Stylesê i.e. the manner in which the leader applies those methods. [D02006]

Team Management

The direction of a group of individuals that work as a unit. Effective teams are results-oriented and are committed to project objectives, goals and strategies. [D03328]

The successful management of a project team. [D03327]

Team Meeting

A formal assembly of the members of the project team, at which progress reports may be presented, directions given, or problems reviewed and solved. A record, or "minutes of meeting" should be issued following any such meetings. [D03329]

Team Members

See Project Team Members. [D02007]

The individuals reporting either part-time or full-time to the project manager who are responsible for some aspect of the project's activities. [D02008]

Team Membership Reassessment

The initial project team determines if they have the right people on the team. If not, they recommend changes to membership. [D02205]

Team Motivation

The process by which the project manager influences his project team to initiate effort on the project tasks, expend increasing amounts of effort on those tasks, and to persist in expending effort on these tasks over the period of time necessary for project goal accomplishment. [D02009]

Team Reward System

The process by which the project team receives recognition for their accomplishments. [D02010]

Teamwork

Work done by several associates with each doing a part but all subordinating personal prominence to the efficiency of the whole. [D03330]

Joint action by a group of people, in which individual interests are subordinated to group unity and efficiency. A coordinated effort. [D03331]

Technical

Pertaining to the application of specific principles and/or reasoning to the resolution of project management issues or problems.
Editor's Note: See also "Technological". [D03524]

Relating to specified solution performance as opposed to cost and schedule. [D04274]

Technical Assurance

The monitoring of the technical integrity of products. [D02011]

The responsibility of planning, monitoring and reporting on the coordination and technical integrity of a project's products. (Carried out by the technical assurance coordinator (TAC), within the project assurance team (PAT). [D05131]

Technical Assurance Coordinator

A member of the project assurance team who is responsible for reporting the technical assurance aspects of a project. [D02012]

Technical Authority

The project's technical authority has the authority and technical expertise to arbitrate on if, and how, a change request is to be implemented. The technical authority defines change tasks, and estimates the effort of engineering the work tasks, corresponding to a change request. [D04780]

Technical Base Management

The process of ensuring that:

• The project's requirements are clearly stated.
• The technical base is elaborated with regard to the required quality, technical, safety, environmental and other standards.
• An appropriate technology strategy is in place.
• The design is value optimized.
• Production implementation is effectively managed.
• Testing plans and practices should be initiated from the outset.
• Hand-over is effectively managed.

[D03768]

Technical Description

An textual account, usually detailed, of the mechanics of all or part of the technology vested in the project. [D03332]

Technical Documentation

User information and references in support of all or part of the technical aspects of the project [D03333]

Technical Exception

Unplanned situations relating to an end product. [D02013]

Technical Feasibility

An assessment of the capability of the proposed project technology to work, and its efficiency, viability, cost effectiveness, etc. [D03334]

Technical File

A file that holds all of the end products to be delivered at the end of a project. [D02014]

Technical Guide

A document that guides stage managers, team leaders and technical assurance coordinators on planning the production of products. [D02015]

Technical Management

The management of design, production & hand-over [D03769]

Technical Manual

Written technical operating and maintenance information for the user. [D04275]

A manual providing detailed treatment of specific subjects considered necessary for the full accomplishment of required training. Also containing descriptions of material and instructions for operations, handling, maintenance and repair. [D03337]

Technical Performance Measurement

The risk management technique of identifying and measuring progress on selected critical parameters. The goal is to identify adverse trends early for timely corrective action. Typical parameters are weight, power, computer memory capacity, and similar items. [D04276]

Technical Performance Status

See Scope Reporting. [D02016]

Technical Products

Products produced by a project for an end user. [D02017]

Technical Quality Administration

The technical process of establishing the plan for monitoring and controlling the project's satisfactory completion. The plan is designed to include policies and procedures which prevent or correct deviations from requirements/ specifications. [D02018]

Technical Quality Specifications

The process of establishing the specific project requirements, including execution criteria and technologies, project design, measurement specifications, and material procurement and control, that satisfy the expectations of the client, stakeholders, and project team. [D02019]

Technical Quality Support

The process of providing technical training and expertise from one or more support groups to a project in a timely manner. [D02020]

Technical Specifications

Documentation which describes, defines or specifies the goods/services to be supplied. See also specifications. [D02021]

Technical Support

A service providing help and explanations in the use of the technology. See also Logistics Support. [D03335]

Technical Training

Training in a particular technology. [D03336]

Technique

The application of specific principles and/or reasoning to the resolution of project management issues or problems. [D03418]

Skilled means to an end. [D02022]

The manner in which technical details are treated. A body of technical methods (as in a craft.) A method of accomplishing a desired aim [D02670]

Technological

Pertaining to the collective deployment of technical processes, i.e. the translation of abstract principles or models into specified project deliverables.
Editor's Note: The term "technological" is properly applied to the management of the technology vested in the particular project, as distinct from the "technical" aspects of project management such as cost and schedule calculations [D03837]

Technology

The collective deployment of technical processes, i.e. the translation of abstract principles or models into specified project deliverables. [D03419]

The practical application of knowledge, especially in a particular area such as engineering. A capability given by the practical application of knowledge. A manner of accomplishing a task especially using technical processes, methods, or knowledge. The specialized aspects of a particular field of endeavor. [D03338]

Technology Development Plan

A plan prepared at an early stage of the project encompassing:

• Technology forecasting, for example on innovation e.g. "Pre-Planned Product Improvement".
• Technology compatibility/interfacing e.g. GroupWare.
• Operations support e.g. Integrated Logistics Support..

[D03770]

Technology Management

Management of the technical aspects of project activities. Requires a much more in-depth understanding of the relevant technology than is required by project management. For example, a construction manager may have much higher understanding of the construction process than the project's manager. It is often the responsibility of a professional trained in the technology. Hence, Technology Management is considered distinct from Project Management, though the two overlap to a considerable extent. [D03339]

Telecommunication

Communication at a distance, as by telephone, satellite, or other electronic means. [D03340]

Telecommunications

The science that deals with telecommunication. [D03341]