| We have difficulty to establish a common ground in the work of individual team members (G2, G9).
Implementation: Divided tasks: 4W-model
The sub division of smaller tasks can best be done when all team members are present. In the specification of tasks, people often tend to forget – for various reasons – a number of dimensions of the taks, which lateron in the process might become problematic. One of the reasons is that other team members are also not able to check progress with team members if the specification of the divided tasks is not done appropriately. In order to take all relevant practical dimensions into account, individual assignments have to answer four questions:
• What needs to be done exactly?
• Who is responsible for which task?
• What needs to be done exactly?
• Why does it need to be done?
• When does it have to be finished?
It is an essential part of effective team-management that everybody, in principle, can indicate at every moment what all other team members are doing and how this fits within their own work.
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