{
  "title": "Project management: should future users train together?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/gestion-de-projet-faut-il-former-ensemble-les-futurs-utilisateurs-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-08-20",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Training each person does not guarantee that the group will know how to work together. Research suggests distinguishing individual skill acquisition from knowing where other people's expertise lies.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Project Management",
  "place": {
    "name": "Neuchâtel",
    "region": "Neuchâtel",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Diane Wei Liang, Richard Moreland and Linda Argote (1995, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin) compared group and individual training before a group assembly task."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Knowing who knows: a distinct resource",
      "point": "Kyle Lewis (2003, Journal of Applied Psychology) developed and validated a field measure of transactive memory encompassing specialisation, credibility and coordination."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that all future users should attend every session together."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot guarantee",
      "point": "The assembly experiment reproduces neither the qualification requirements of an industrial process nor the consequences of a production error."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Neuchâtel",
      "point": "In keeping with SHR's [Project Management](/formation/gestion-de-projet/neuchatel) programme, a project commissioning inspection equipment in Neuchâtel's microtechnology, watchmaking or precision microelectronics sector could include a simulation involving production, manufacturing engineering and quality staff."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Argote",
      "year": "1995",
      "source": "Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Lewis",
      "year": "2003",
      "source": "Journal of Applied Psychology"
    }
  ],
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
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