PRJ566 Project Planning and Management Teamwork 1

PRJ566 Project Planning and Management

Teamwork

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Software Development Software Development is needed to turn

manual processes into automated processes or to improve/enhance existing automated processes. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development)

Software Development follows a methodology called the SDLC

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Software Development Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

A methodology that organizes the activities of a project

Followed by a Systems Analyst to do software development

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_process

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Software Development A project team (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_team) follows

a software development life cycle to deliver a software solution

The team is made up of members who perform different roles on a project

Each phase in the SDLC can use different team members (business analyst, architect, data base administrator, programmer, etc)

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Teamwork Henry Ford on teams:

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

“Software Development requires students to work together in teams”

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Teamwork Coming together is a beginning

Forming Teams Team Size Team Member Roles

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Forming Teams Assigned by the Instructor

Allows students to: Learn from one another Depend on one another Grow from the interactions with each other Need strategies for dealing with team conflict

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Forming Teams Students pick their own teams

Students pick their friends Difficult to deal with poor performing team

members Friendships disrupted in poor performing teams

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Forming Teams Mix of students picking team members and

instructor assigning team members Need to understand the skill sets that each team

member brings to the team

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Team Size Bigger teams restrict the ability for all team

members to participate and contribute to the success of the team

Optimum team size for this course: 3 to 4 students

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Team Roles Social Loafing

A team member will expend less effort when working collectively than when working individually

Free Riding A team member trying to benefit from being a

part of the team but not contributing equally

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Team Roles Perceived Social Loafing

Team members perceive that one or more other team members are contributing less than they could to the team

Sucker Effect Team members scale back their efforts to match

those of the free riders

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Team Roles Negative behaviours are sources of conflict

that will lead to reduced or poor team performance

Systems stream of courses teach you the skills necessary to work as part of a project team

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Team Roles Need to define the role of each team member Always need 1 team member to act in the role

of team leader

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Teamwork Keeping together is progress

Managing Teams Tracking Progress

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Managing Teams Assignment deliverables

Ensuring deliverables are on time and done correctly

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Tracking Progress Regular meetings

Track what was discussed: Tasks done or to be done Changes made to the system Issues with team members

If not tracked: Team members don’t know about it Instructor doesn’t know about it

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Teamwork Working together is success

Project delivered –on time and what the client wants

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Team Motivation Strategies*

1. Foster mutual respect for the expertise of all team members

2. Help weaker team members believe that their effort is vital to team success

3. Support a shared belief in the cooperative capabilities of the team

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Team Motivation Strategies*

4. Hold individual team members accountable for their contributions to the team effort

5. Direct the team’s competitive spirit outside the team

*5 Research-tested team motivation strategies, Richard Clark (2005)

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Team Challenges Projects that fail almost always fail because of

team problems Team communication is the biggest problem “Not doing work” is the next biggest problem

Handling Team Challenges 1 If a team is having problems with a specific

member, the team must talk to that person right away. If issue is not resolved

THEN come and see the instructor if the problem is not resolved

cc instructor on any correspondence i.e. emails trying to contact a team member who has not been attending

Handling Team Challenges 2 See the instructor immediately if your

problem is not resolved quickly If it’s TOO LATE your instructor cannot help

you