---
title: Adding Groups or Teams to a Task
description: "## Groups vs. Individuals ![](https://cdn.document360.io/78b546e3-7b9f-4bd7-98e5-38d651fd99e6/Images/Documentation/Screenshot%202025-03-12%20at%2011.44.10%E2%80%AFAM.png) You can assign individuals or groups to a task. Groups can be created on the basis of department, skill-set, charge-out rate or any other criteria that best fits your organization. Refer to [Groups](https://ibe.document360.io/docs/teams-or-groups) for more information. Team…"
url: "https://www.ibe.net/docs/adding-groups-or-teams-to-a-task/"
updated: "2026-01-05"
category: "Project & Tasks / Working with Tasks"
---

# Adding Groups or Teams to a Task

## Groups vs. Individuals

![](https://cdn.document360.io/78b546e3-7b9f-4bd7-98e5-38d651fd99e6/Images/Documentation/Screenshot%202025-03-12%20at%2011.44.10%E2%80%AFAM.png)

You can assign individuals or groups to a task. Groups can be created on the basis of department, skill-set, charge-out rate or any other criteria that best fits your organization. Refer to [Groups](https://ibe.document360.io/docs/teams-or-groups) for more information. Team and individual resources on a task have many aspects in common and some distinct differences:

- Individuals have a specific cost rate, billing or equivalent T&M revenue rate and available capacity profile or work-schedule
- Teams can be assigned a specific billing rate for revenue projection or quotation purposes but do not have a cost rate. They normally inherit the available capacity from their team members
- Individuals can have a specific set of skills, teams are normally created on the basis of 1-2 skills
- The required workload from tasks assigned to members of a team are automatically inherited up to the team as a whole.

## How to Assign a Team to a Task

![](https://cdn.document360.io/78b546e3-7b9f-4bd7-98e5-38d651fd99e6/Images/Documentation/Screenshot%202025-03-12%20at%2011.50.16%E2%80%AFAM.png)

Teams are assigned to tasks as resources in the same way individuals are assigned, by selecting the team from the list of resources and people available.

**It is recommended to separate teams visually from individuals through a distinctive naming convention.**