3. Team organization: specialty versus project

There are two opposing concepts when it comes to organizing work within teams:

• Working by specialty: studies are entrusted to a team whose core specialty corresponds to the main scientific issues to be resolved. This team will itself take the initiative of seeking additional data from colleagues.

• Project-based work: for each study, the knowledge to be mobilized is identified, then the corresponding researchers are appointed to the team in charge of the work.

More and more often, we see a system that combines both models. You can set up a matrix organization. Each researcher divides his or her time between studies with other specialists in the same field and interdisciplinary projects.

You'll need to set up very clear diagrams to follow this matrix...