Topic Proposal Reflection

Team Proposal Reflection

As of now in this project we have completed and turned in our final Topic Proposal, written the survey questions, and had an interview with Mark Ferne, so we are on track and successfully met our first deadlines. There are definitely challenges associated with working in a group but when all members are in communication with each other the issues diminish. We can recognize the issues we have and address them because we are all open and understand that communication between teammates is helpful. As a team I think we have all contributed about the same amount of work, but if we could do it all over from the beginning I would prefer to do all of the work together as a team, but that is totally unrealistic considering there are five members in our team and we all go to school and have jobs.

We are on schedule and are ready to conduct research and move forward with our project. We have the Topic Proposal written up and turned in, Gary and Lauryn met with Mark Ferne, and the survey questions are written up so we are ready to do that whenever we want. I would say we are successful because we have all the necessary things done at this point. Everyone has been contributing equally and although it has been difficult getting the entire group together we have been making it work by staying in communication with each other.

The biggest challenge, as I have mentioned, is that we all have busy schedules so it is hard to find a time to meet that works for everyone. We try to manage that by meeting when the majority of the group is able to and keeping whoever isn’t able to show up to certain things informed and in the loop. We try and email, text, and call each other to make sure we’re all on the same page. We are pretty successful with this and being in class together twice a week helps because we can touch base and make sure we know what is coming up next.

So far I’ve helped out with the Topic Proposal, added my questions to the list of questions we had for Mark Ferne, and written the questions for the survey we will hand out. I’ve been successful in working with the group because I feel like I’ve done about the same amount of work as everyone else in the group – we’ve all contributed equally so far I’d say. If I could go back and start over I would probably try and have a few more meetings just to check in and make sure everything’s on track. This is mostly because when working in a group I prefer that almost everything is done together as a group. I know that this is unrealistic with this specific project however, because all of our schedules are so packed. Considering this, we have done a good job making sure everything is completed and turned in on time and also that it is of good quality. I would also ask people more about what they wanted to do and if there were things they really didn’t want to do so that we could plan accordingly. I don’t think there was really an issue with this but it might have been helpful. For the most part people volunteered for things but sometimes I think we had to assign things to people sort of randomly and I would want to ask everyone if that was cool if we did it again. This again, however, goes back to all of our schedules being so busy.

Overall I think we are doing a great job. We have everything completed and turned in that has to be turned in and we are ready to start gathering information and moving on to the next steps in the project. Also, we have a fun group dynamic, everyone gets along and has the same attitude towards the project so it is really easy to meet up and get our work done. We don’t have lots of clashing ideas or priorities so things go really smoothly when we’re all together.