Week 7 - Our Team

I don't think I could have ended up in a better team for this paper. Despite the heavy workload and other difficult aspects, I feel that we have been a really strong team overall. In saying this there has been things that we have done really well and other things that have been more difficult.

For this blog post I'm essentially going to talk about the strengths and weaknesses of our team through this assignment.

I felt our strengths have far outnumbered our weaknesses but there was still a handful of weaknesses. 

There was some difficulty in keeping track of what everyone was doing at various stages. 

This was probably mainly because I think another area we could have done better with was setting deadlines for everyone to have work done. We did, however, set some deadlines for the final portion of the report and they worked well. I think this difficulty stems from the fact that we cover such a range of geographic locations and also busy schedules; there wasn't much opportunity to set deadlines because we were all always busy at different times. 

Another problem we encountered was dividing the workload evenly, We decided to divide by the three topics and an editor which only gives four people solid workloads. But after some discussion we managed to divide it better and I think everyone has ended up with a fairly even workload.

All these weaknesses aren't because of anyone making things difficult in anyway; they are all mostly a result of all of us having such different schedules and even living in different time-zones.

Our team had a lot more strengths. So far we've done a really good job of getting work done. No one has failed to pull through with anything and no one has taken an excessive amount of time to finish anything.

Another thing that's gone really well has been our meetings. While all of us missed the occasional meeting there's always been at least a couple of people to meet and talk every week. 

Our Facebook group has added to our good communication. Any concerns, thoughts or updates have been shared and seen quickly which has been a lot of help.

Everyone in our group has done a really good job of doing their bit. Everyone has done their work and communicated well with everyone else which has made the report go much better.

We also did a really good job of supporting each other. Any concerns were listened to and considered and we came to agreements on issues that popped up very quickly with little to no tension.

So overall our group has been really great so far. We managed to write, organize and perform a survey with no hiccups and we decided on our topics and framework with no major issues. The editing process was also as easy as it could be; It was shared between another member of the team and myself and there weren't any great problems dividing up the workload between us. I neither feel that I did too much or too little of the editing. We still have one more assignment to work on together so there is still, no doubt, difficulties to come but I'm confident that we have very good odds of completing that assignment with no serious hindrances.

I'm going to end this with a big thank you to my entire team for all their time and effort they've put into this course. Assignment 2 would have been impossible with a team that doesn't work as well as you all do!