Yellow Lab
Wow, this sure has been a fast-paced week! This week, we showed off our prototype to the world at the first year opening house and then handed our prototypes in for marking. I was told that the Mustard Seed wanted our prototype afterwards, which tells me that it reached a threshold of usable quality. On the whole though, what did we learn? What worked well? What didn't?
On the plus side, we learned the value of teamwork. In this project, it became clear that there was no alpha student. Rather, a group of motivated individuals took the helm and pushed the project in the directions they saw fit. Some people made the poster and brochures have the luster of professionalism and quality. Others brought teams together and unified software into a single product. What used to cause chaos and confusion became a matter of working together and keeping each other in the loop.
In summary, some of the lessons we learned were:
-assign specific deadlines and responsibilities for individuals to complete assignments or perform tasks.
-regularly talk to people, including those outside your group, to review the accomplishments of the week and identify what needs to be done next week.
-create an environment of trust and support, with minimal blaming.
-be socially constructive, not critical.
-keep members of Project Management accountable to the groups they represent, and to each other.
-check your phone and email regularly.
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