Editing Team (section)

==== Project teams ====
{{Main|Project team}}
A team used only for a [[define]]d period of time and for a separate, concretely definable purpose, often{{quantify|date=April 2016}} becomes known as a project team. This category of team includes negotiation-, commission- and design-team subtypes. In general, these types of teams are multi-talented and composed of individuals with expertise in many different areas. Members of these teams might belong to different groups, but receive assignment to activities for the same [[project]], thereby allowing outsiders to view them as a single unit. In this way, setting up a team allegedly facilitates the creation, tracking and assignment of a group of people based on the project in hand.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}}  The use of the "team" label in this instance often has no relationship to whether the employees work as a team.

Lundin and Soderholm define project teams as a special case in the more general category of temporary organizations which also includes task forces, program committees, and action groups.  All of these are formed to "make things happen". This emphasis on action leads to a demarcation between the temporary organization and its environment.  The demarcation is driven by four interrelated concepts (the four T's):
#Time – the time horizons and limits are crucial to the existence of temporary organizations "whose very existence helps spread a sense of urgency".
#Task – the raison d` ètre for the temporary organization; no other party is attending to the same task at the same time in the same way
#Team – provides the human resources to accomplish the task in the time available
#Transition – an accomplishment or some sort of qualitative difference is expected after the time horizon
"The concepts also differ from the crucial concepts that define the permanent organization. Permanent organizations are more naturally defined by goals (rather than tasks), survival (rather than time), working organization (rather than team) and production processes and continual development (rather than transition)"
<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lundin|first1=R. A.|last2=Soderholm|first2=A.|year=1995|title=A Theory of the Temporary Organization|journal=Scandinavian Journal of Management|volume=11|issue=4|pages=437–455|doi= 10.1016/0956-5221(95)00036-U}}</ref>