Team Working Agreement

Engineering 1282.02H

Spring, 2016

Jack Canaday, Seat 1

Eric Glowacki, Seat 8

Justin Iovino, Seat 5

Shane Riddle, Seat 4

Date of Submission: 02/22/16

Communication

Participate in the GroupMe conversation and be up to date on all aspects of the project.
Inform other group members of progress, especially when something is finished.
Talk about any problems (technical) encountered and how the group would like to go about solving them.
No one has executive power to make overall design decisions. This group is a democracy, not a dictatorship.
Be prompt in responses, replying within twelve hours.
Use constructive criticism, do not attack other group members on a personal level
An overall calendar with all due dates will be made so group members can always be aware of what is coming up.

Participation

Be active and knowledgeable in all aspects of the project.
Play off own individual strengths. This means that each member will choose tasks that he can do best.
If struggling with an assignment make issues known to group members so they may provide assistance.

Decision Making

Everyone has input on decisions.
Consider all ideas.
Know the strengths/weaknesses of own ideas and play off of those ideas when delegating work.
Everyone should try to be generating ideas. No one member should be responsible for all design ideas.
Don’t shoot down ideas without having a decent reason as to why.

Managing Disagreements

If at a 2 person tie - have a 3rd party mediator or allow a single person to make an executive decision (executive power would be on a rotation).
If a group member is consistently late, underprepared, doing subpar work, or doing anything else detrimental to the group, then there will be a group meeting to discuss this problem and address how it can be fixed.

Responsibilities and Expectations

Each group member should strive to do an equal and fair amount of work.
If external circumstances will interfere with effective work then make this known to other group members so work can be reallocated / decisions can be made.
It is each group member’s responsibility to print their final copy to turn in.

Individual work will be completed 1 day before due date so group members are able to review it.
If something happens, group members will inform group that they will not be able to complete their work within the time frame.

Do each and every assignment to the best of your ability.
As a group each assignment will be reviewed before it is submitted by referencing the rubric.
If a group member feels like sub-par work has been done, the person will bring up the reasons they think the work could be improved.

Conduct during and between meetings

There will be two outside meetings per week.

The first meeting will on Thursdays at 7:30 PM.
The second meeting will be on Sundays at 2 PM.
Each team member is expected to be at every meeting on time barring extenuating circumstances.
If you are late, be sure to notify the group how late and why you will be late.
Every member must come prepared for each meeting.
Prepared is defined as:

If a schedule conflict is known in advance, the group member will communicate with the group as soon as he knows.

Structure of meetings

One member, determined before each meeting, prepares an agenda for each meeting and leads said meeting
Each member will have an opportunity to lead meetings. No one person will lead all the meetings

Someone who is not the leader will take meeting minutes and upload them to the Google drive so that they are available to the group
Minutes should be neat and structured

For sunday meetings, recap of the last week. Talk about what worked and what did not in the previous week, if necessary.
Examine the current week and see what still needs to be done.
Have a general question period.
Review of work due that week.