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BELBIN'S TEAM ROLE THEORY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abstract 3
1. Introduction 3
2. Groups & Teams 5
3. Belbin's SPI and 9 Team Roles 7
4. Critical Analysis 9
5. Application Value 13
6. Supporting Studies 14
7. Conclusion 15
8. Bibliography 16
Abstract
Acumen Software Ltd., a leading software company has been constantly facing problems with some of its project teams. Although these teams comprise of very skilled and experienced solution architects and developers, yet they are failing to achieve deadlines for delivering the business critical solutions to their clients. The team members are embroiled in the blame game for lack of contribution from their team mates. Acumen Software has sought help from Accenture Consulting to advise them on why their project teams are failing to meet the deadlines despite considerable experience and what can be done to improve the situation.
This study reports attempts to study the poor performance of the Acumen team using Belbin's team role theory as a base and also suggests measures that can be taken by the company to improve the performance of their teams.
1. Introduction
The situation prevailing in the Acumen project teams is familiar to the following interesting "Team problem" quotation in Buchanan & Huczynski (pg.318).
There were four team members named Everybody, Somebo ...