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4 Customer orientation with focus on "my output is your input"
Mclntosh, etal. [ 1991] support the notion that each team member should
fulfill a functional role, for example, geoscientist, engineer, etc. A corollary is
that team members can understand their roles because the roles have been clearly
defined,
Proper management can improve the likelihood that a team will function
as it should, A sense of ownership or "buy-in" can be fostered if team members
participate in planning and decision making. Team member views should in-
fluence the work scope and schedule of activity. Many problems can be avoided
if realistic expectations are built into project schedules at the beginning, and then
adhered to throughout the project. Expanding work scope without altering
resource allocation or deadlines can be demoralizing and undermine the team
concept,
Finally, one important caution should be borne in mind when performing
studies using teams: "Fewer ideas are generated by groups than by individuals
working alone - a conclusion supported by empirical evidence from psychology
[Norton, 1994]." In describing changes in the work flow of exploration and
development studies, Tobias [ 1998, pg. 38] observed that "asset teams have their
drawbacks. The enhanced teamwork achieved through a team approach often
comes at the expense of individual creativity, as group dynamics can and often
does inhibit individual initiative [Kanter, 1988]." Tobias recommended that
organizations allow "the coexistence of both asset teams and individual work
environments." His solution is a work flow that allows the "simultaneous
coexistence of decoupled individual efforts and recoupled asset team coordina-
tion."

1.3 Outline of the Text

The remainder of the text is organized as follows. Part I presents a primer
on reservoir engineering. The primer is designed to provide background concepts
and terminology in the reservoir engineering aspects of fluid flow in porous
media. Material in Part II explains the concepts and terminology of reservoir
simulation. A typical exercise in Part II asks you to find and change data records
in a specified example data file. These records of data must be modified based