How to Build Successful and Lasting Teams?

The Art of Optimizing Team Dynamics with Discovery and Talent Allocation

When building successful products that are both loved by the customers and work for the business, building teams of highly skilled specialists is a crucial aspect.

If we want to ensure project success ​​— and also employees who feel empowered by having a missionary-like passion for solving customer problems together as a team — we need to make well-thought-out project assignment decisions. It's getting even more challenging with limited talent availability, which is a growing problem all developing IT companies are facing nowadays.

Though companies face increasingly complicated challenges, there are a set of key factors that have an outsized impact on building successful teams. We can achieve big returns if we understand what those factors are and focus on being governed by them when assigning to our projects:

👉 The right mindset

Develop a culture based on a shared mindset among all of your employees, oriented on building relationships and mutual growth. Provide compelling direction and give your team members a significant degree of autonomy. People won't stay with you if they don’t know what they’re working toward and don’t have explicit goals. This empowers them to figure out the best way to meet those goals and will make them feel accountable for the results. In the long run, it enables you to build a strong, long-lasting team of specialists which will give you stability and a wider range of talents to choose from when planning your next project assignments.

👉 Understand people’s needs

It's a leader's job to maintain regular discussions with teammates to plan their growth path and discuss what kind of projects could help to elevate skills that need further development. Every project assignment should address your team members’ development goals and aspirations, so the leader needs to work closely with the talent allocation team to find the project that suits them best.

👉 Understand project characteristics

Having a dedicated Discovery team who are responsible for figuring out the way to solve customer problems, and who provide clear information on the most suitable talent profile to do so, helps a lot. It is crucial to make sure that sales experts are experienced, product-oriented consultants who can uncover client and business needs but also who understand what set of skills need to be present to succeed. That's why our Discovery team works closely with the Talent Allocation Team daily which helps to find the best talent suitable for the project.


Building great teams has never been easy — but in recent years it has become much more complex. Growing demand for talents in the IT market makes it more difficult to continue, that's why establishing a culture that builds strong relationships with employees is so important.

Maybe you have some thoughts on how to identify where improvements for talent allocation are needed? Share your insights with me!