Project Teams – general characteristics and rules
Project Teams are a light working structure that brings together, for a specified period of time, a limited number of technical experts to complete specified tasks on behalf of a Workshop. It is the Workshop who is responsible for directing the Project Team's deliverables, and for agreeing on what was produced. A Project Team itself has no other responsibility but to produce in line with a workshop's expectations.
The creation of a Project Team has to be agreed by the Workshop concerned. This decision must be reflected in the Workshop's Business Plan. The proposal for a Project Team shall provide the necessary information to enable a good understanding of the expected task(s) and the corresponding outcome. Proposals must therefore at least contain the following sections:
- Title of the Project Team to be established
- Subject and Scope
- Justification of using the PT-tool (explaining why voluntary efforts cannot be used )
- Reference authority (Workshop in charge of the follow-up of action)
- General context/Background/Environment
- Work plan, including duration and target dates
- Manpower (in man-days or man-months)
- Characteristics of the expertise required and criteria for selection of candidates
- Expected deliverable(s).
If relevant, and according to the type of work assignment, the Project Team's Terms of Reference should also provide information about reference specifications and documents, and connected working bodies.
The Project Team experts are selected from the applications received as a result of an open Call for Experts, by a Selection panel which includes the Chairman and Secretary of the Workshop, the Project Manager of any relevant Workshop Project, a representative of the CEN Secretary-General, and one or more specialists who have a good knowledge of the subject concerned, and its industrial and standardization environment. Of course, members of the Selection panel shall not be Project Team candidates themselves. Rules for the Selection of Project Teams are obtainable here.
Equally, during the Project Team's existence, measures will be taken to guarantee the necessary neutrality in the chairing of the discussion or evaluation of the Project Team's deliverables by the Workshop, in case the Chairman or a Workshop Project Manager would be a paid Project Team expert.
The Workshop registered participants have to be informed on the composition of the Project Team and may express objections to selected experts, with the grounds of their objection. In such cases, the Selection panel will consider the objections and notify the Workshop registered participants of the outcome of their consideration.
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