The most important step in success of any job is the composition of team. The teams can posses similar or varied qualities depending upon the nature of the Project. The success or failure gets largely driven by this aspect. It is important to invest time with leads or managers to dig the right mixture. Different individual and teams gets influenced by host of factors. These factors can be part of their inherent personality or possessed over a period of time on their Job. The challenge is not only to look at the bigger picture but also beyond it keeping several scenarios in mind.

Whenever you start a project it is important understand the intricacies of the work involved. The process of choosing your team can then start and can be ordered in following manner. While list is exhaustive you can pick choose the ones which you feel will give best results

1) Current Profile- What is the current profile of your team members. Shortlist the team which you find is best suited. Keep this number high as it would be more of an elimination process.

2) Past Experience- Basics are important in any job. There are conceptual points which need to be well understood. Information about their education background or past experience is good indicator of this.

3) Past Achievements- You need winners. Past achievements are good indicator of capabilities. Many companies do not recognize the achievements on a periodic basis. Here acquiring understanding about individuals from their teams are important.

4) Strengths- Each individual have their own strength. While some posses an ability to architect solution there can be others who are good operationally. Asses the strengths which would be required for the project and select team accordingly.

5) Productivity- I consider this important because numbers on paper is true indicator of capabilities. An ability to demonstrate the capability gets reflected in productivity.

6) Innovation – This step is the key during the life time of the project. You need to improve process and scale the operations. Go for people who have demonstrated this consistently.

7) Team Work- Depending on type of project you can look for individual contributors or team player. Both capabilities are important in their own might. Regardless team players are always preferred even if they are individual contributors.

8 ) Willingness to take Risk- Taking risk is important but it is important to have backups and safety measures well in place. You need people to take risk in order to succeed.

9) Motivation – Motivation is the key but you also need to look behind this too. As assessment of what motivates individual personally on job and especially for your project is important. Do not go for people who seeks short term gratification and miss the bigger picture.

10) Flexibility- Do not go for stubborn people and the ones who are not flexible. Though these people cannot survive but sometimes they do because of multiple factors. For your project it is important that you look for this capability.

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You can be wrong in your choices and there is no harm in admitting them. While too many changes spell a doom, this can be easily avoided by spending time in initial part of the project. A job well started with right composition is the half battle won. However this is not the only step because there are host of others which will help you achieve your goal. I will cover each of them in my new posts so keep watching this space.

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