1. ECE361 Engineering Practice
Team Skills - Meetings
“Meetings are gatherings where minutes are kept and hours are lost”
Murphy’s Laws
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2. Team Skills - Meetings Team Assignments Team Skills
“Meetings, Bloody Meetings” Video
Assignments
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3. Team Assignments
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4. Project Teams
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5. The vast majority of engineers work in team settings.
Often, an engineer is a member of many teams, playing different roles in each team.
Understanding teams is a skill that must be learned…
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6. What is a Team?
“…a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.” Smith, p. 33
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7. What are some characteristics of an effective team?
Good participation Common goal
Respect Sense of Purpose
Careful listening Good meeting facilitation
Leadership Empowered members
Constructively-managed Members take
conflict responsibility
Fun Effective decision-making
Smith, p. 32
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8. Diagram the Internet Mail process from creation to reading 10 minutes…
Team Challenge
Diagram the Internet Mail process from creation to reading 10 minutes…
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9. Team Challenge - Reflection
Did you operate as a team?
Did you feel organized?
Did you meet your objective?
Did everyone participate equally?
Was time management an issue?
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10. Team Skills Must be Developed
Team processing Roles and Responsibilities Accountability Individual and team work Team communication
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11. Code of Cooperation Mutual agreement of team
In order to have effective teams, each team member must be willing to work together as a part of the team. In a sense, this requires each team member to be a good team citizen. Perhaps your team members do not have a common understanding of what a good team citizen is, and so we will develop a team Code of Cooperation
Mutual agreement of team
Signed and dated by all team members
Enforced by team members
Revisions if needed
Often posted at meeting place
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12. not allow inappropriate behaviors
Should be as concise
as possible.
Personalize, but do
not allow inappropriate behaviors
sample available on web page
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13. Calibrated Peer Review (CPR)
Great way to learn about and improve your writing
Used in a number of classes
Time Schedule is important and unforgiving…
See handout on Angel for details
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14. CPR Minutes Assignment
Log into CPR now
You are a new user!
Afterwards, login with userid and password
Look at first assignment (Keeping Minutes)
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15. CPR Submissions in HTML
Don’t forget !
Construct your assignment in Word (or other processor)
Save as HTML File
View and copy the HTML source code
Paste HTML source code into the CPR submission box
Otherwise, there will be much weeping and gnashing of teeth
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16. MEMORANDUM
TO: ECE361 Class FROM: Professor Ferguson DATE: 5 September 2005 SUBJECT: Requested Information
Each team is requested to meet and decide upon two matters: Team Name and Team Code of Cooperation
Submission of this information and the team membership is requested from each team in memo format (angel dropbox) by the end of the day. Any attached documents should have the team name in the filename. Minutes of the team meeting are also to be kept by each individual for a future activity.
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17. ECE 361 Assignments
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT – Obtain bound notebook for course/project before next class
TEAM ASSIGNMENT - Prepare and submit a memo including your team’s name, membership, and code of coop.
Primary author must be indicated
Due ASAP, one per team, via angel dropbox
Photocopy signed code and disperse to members and instructor
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT – Work the CPR assignment “Keeping Minutes”
Submit the minutes you took from the “Code of Cooperation” meeting of your team
Mind the CPR schedule!
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18. References:
[1] K Smith, Project Management and Teamwork, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 2004
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