Project Team Management System using Competency Evaluation and the Enneagram

Abstract

This study proposes a team management system which organizes feasible teams within an organization. This system takes both the internal and external aspects of project members into account, using competency and the Enneagram. A feasible team is a collection of members with enough ability for project achievement. It is measured through competency, focusing on the external aspects of team members. Team competency is defined to evaluate the ability of the whole team. It is classified into an additive type, a selective type, and a balanced type. The additive type is a grand total of the competency evaluation level of the team members. When a particular ability is required to be prominent for the success of a project, the project manager uses the selective type to select project members. When the project manager wants to emphasize the balance of members, he/she uses the balanced type. After a feasible team is organized through competency evaluation, the Enneagram is used for identifying one through nine types of person. This system consists of a personal data evaluation system and a team formation system. The former does competency evaluation and Enneagram analysis. The later performs omni-directional evaluation of competency and Enneagram analysis by a team enneagram congeniality (TEC) value. It represents the level of affinity among the members within a team. The system is evaluated in terms of operability and performance. A competency portfolio is made for various combinations of teams with different competency distributions. The relationship between competency evaluation level and TEC value is shown as the Enneagram portfolio. The calculation time for feasible and optimal teams to be obtained is compared. A feasible team is obtained faster and calculation time remains unchanged even if the item numbers of competency increases.