One option would be to maximize the team's ROI (you have influence over the cost of the project and the competitive value of time-to-market, both of which leverage ROI). Things obviously are not working right; people are not holding on to their end of the bargain, you have dead weight just wasting your time and slowing TTM, these people should ideally not be a part of your next project, but you have no time to educate outsiders, right ? An extreme but workable solution would be to turn everyone into a contract worker; create a list of sub-projects and assign a monetary value to them; let everyone bid on a part. The system would ideally be set up so that people would be paid about just as much if they were to win the bids on the parts that they were originally hired to perform. Benefits: dead weight becomes free, you'll get to market faster, and your greater output will be rewarded.
Also, make sure you get to qualify the new candidates next time, so that such solutions don't become necessary.
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One option would be to maximize the team's ROI (you have influence over the cost of the project and the competitive value of time-to-market, both of which leverage ROI). Things obviously are not working right; people are not holding on to their end of the bargain, you have dead weight just wasting your time and slowing TTM, these people should ideally not be a part of your next project, but you have no time to educate outsiders, right ? An extreme but workable solution would be to turn everyone into a contract worker; create a list of sub-projects and assign a monetary value to them; let everyone bid on a part. The system would ideally be set up so that people would be paid about just as much if they were to win the bids on the parts that they were originally hired to perform. Benefits: dead weight becomes free, you'll get to market faster, and your greater output will be rewarded. Also, make sure you get to qualify the new candidates next time, so that such solutions don't become necessary.