Among a well-functioning project team, open and informal communication
is prolific. Project team members motivate, respect and support
each other. According to Smith and Berg (1987: 140), ‘It is clear that a
group can function only if the members are able to depend on each other.
It is ultimately the mutual dependency that makes the group a team. To
deny this dependency or to try to make it into something other than
what it is retards the group’s capacity to come together a whole.’ This
means that organising a project at the very beginning of the project life cycle forms a base for the building of a successful project team. In other
words, at the beginning of a project, the tuning of a group to work as a
team is the most intensive task of the project management