But when most or all of our team is ineffective – unable to productively work together and collaborate on an a successful end solution – that’s a major problem and it’s extremely hard to deal with. In this two part series, I’d like to cover some of the major signs of ineffective teams. They may not be recognizable early on enough to stop the cancer they can cause on the project, but having a list (feel free to add your own thoughts, of course) may help us avoid project failures in the future.