Question: How do you structure the information flow for this team and how do you know that your priorities are ordered properly?
(To be effective you need to make sure that all sides have insight into the problems that each team is facing. One of the political aspects of any project it the potential "finger pointing" that occurs as a project that is a high priority for one area is hindered because it is a low priority project in another. Different sub teams may also view their issue as critical and push to elevate it in status they by taking critical resources from other key areas. Often the project manager needs to make focus these cross area decisions.)