Program Team

Definition

Program Team

an overall team that contains and organizes all other teams on a program of related projects

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Program Team is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Endeavor Team
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The team-specific responsibilities of a Program Team are to:

• Fulfill the mission and objectives of the program.
• Provide organization to the program and the subordinate teams on the program.

A program team typically inherits the general team responsibilities from the team method component.

Subordinate Teams

A Program Team typically consists of the following subordinate teams:

• Management Team:
  • Program Management Team
  • Change Control Board
  • Configuration Management Team
  • Disaster Recovery Team
  • Emergency Response Team
  • Endeavor Debrief Team
• Component Team:
  • Project Team
  • Reuse Team
• Engineering Team:
  • Quality Team
  • Training Team
• Post-Development Team:
  • Content Management Team
  • Maintenance Team
  • Operations Team
  • User Support Team
  • Retirement Team
• Evaluation Team:
  • Management Evaluation Team
  • Retirement Evaluation Team
  • User Support Evaluation Team

Tasks

A Program Team typically performs the following tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Indirectly, all program and project-level tasks performed by its subordinate teams.

Work Products

A Program Team typically produces the following work products:

• Indirectly, all program and project work products produced by its subordinate teams.

Guidelines

• Document the organization of the program team using an organization chart.
• The composition of the project team varies over time as subordinate teams are staffed, perform their tasks, and then disband (possibly until they are needed again).