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What is a Team?

The concept of a team can be highly demonstrated and understood through watching a music band, where each team member is responsible for his instrument, and all band members are responsible for the whole piece of music.

For an unforgettable symphony, there should be no dissonant sounds; all instruments should be played in harmony and in synch, each in his turn. Guitar, drums and other instruments are each needed to serve a certain purpose, no instrument is more important than the other.
What is a Team?

It’s the same in software, whether you are part of a small project team or part of a big project team, or even part of your organization as a whole, the concept of a team is still applicable.

Team members should always focus on completing each other not on blaming each other or getting rid of responsibility or throwing their tasks to others. Teamwork is harmony in everything, each team member knows his role and the role of others, each plays really good with his tools and experience.
It’s like a ship, where each of us is responsible for a specific needed and important function. To arrive safe, each of us has to perform his role and trust others will do so. The PM is not the only person responsible for the safe arrival of the ship; it’s a shared responsibility among the whole team.
A team is a partnership without a contract. A team is a family, where no one member can live happily without the others…

If every team member understands and believes in the concept of a team, we will build unbeatable teams, we will be able to achieve anything, literally anything in the world. Just believe that the true meaning of a team is…
“Together Everyone Achieves More”
- Unknown author


Some PMs prefer to see it this way…
“Together Everyone Annoys Me”
- Unknown author


which is also a teamwork in the core ☺

Please make sure to choose your team before your destination.

P.S. I once had such team. This post is a special dedication to the best team I ever worked with.

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