Project team building is generally defined as a process of taking a collection
of individuals with different needs, backgrounds and expertise,
and transforming them into an integrated and effective work unit (e.g.
Ruuska, 1999; Tissen et al., 2000). In such a transformation process the
goals and energies of the individual contributors merge and support
the objectives of the team. Projects thus typically comprise individuals
with different competences and different experience from other projects.
When most team members are, for instance, engineers, they obviously
have a certain degree of overlapping formal knowledge and similarities
in general attitudes.