# 6 - Teams and Dedication
Dedication means placing an individual on the team full time. The objective here is to capture your team members's mind share so that they think about team issues even when not doing team work. In reality, you will not have them 100 percents of their time at work - sickness, training, consulting to past projects, and similar activities are bound to intervene - but about two third of their hours at work is reasonable and sufficient. Clearly, this overcomes many issues of priorities. When a project is undergoing a great deal of change, people who are on multiple projects are inevitably missing during key periods on the subject project, so they are continually out of date, and others waste time bringing them back into the project. Beyond this, assigning an individual to more than two projects is simply wasteful of human ressources, as describe in a lot of studies on this topic. With a second project assigned to individuals, they can fill any gaps in the primary project, but after this...