TABLE OF CONTENTS An integrated team, also known as an integrated product team, is composed of members who are collectively responsible for delivering the work product. Team members include empowered representatives from both the technical disciplines and business functional organizations involved with the product and have a stake in the success of the work products produced. Within defined boundaries, these representatives have decision-making authority and the responsibility to act for their representative organizations. These integrated teams may be viewed as a microversion of the company or business unit itself.
This chapter describes the conditions under which integrated teams are considered, built, and managed. It includes CMMI process areas of Integrated Project Management, Integrated Teams, and Organizational Environment for Integration.
Establishing self-managed and empowered teams, whose members are collectively responsible for delivering the work product in order to support clear business objectives, could be equivalent to achieving CMMI "Maturity Level 3.5." Integrated product teams are only established to satisfy specific business objectives that the project manager or higher-level managers of the organization believe cannot be reached without the skills and abilities of a special group of people. These special people are to be provided with the necessary tools, equipment, and training that may not normally be provided for standard project members. They should be highly skilled in their own disciplines or functions and have demonstrated the ability to learn. They have demonstrated the ability to get along with and work cooperatively with others. These integrated team members do...
