Team Proposal reflection

This project was my first group project of the semester. I think we were all trying to get in the groove of things and learning how everyone works with each other. We realized that we all get along and that made it easier for group members to feel comfortable to contribute ideas. Also it was easier to let each other know if we wouldn’t be able to make it to meetings.

A challenge that we faced was that not everyone was available to come to group meetings and there were a lot of emails and texts sent between us informing the rest of the group of what was left to be done. We overcome this by group members assigning themselves things to do that needed to get done. This was actually successful for us because then the same people weren’t doing all the work. This was also successful because the people who assigned themselves things to do were able to get them done on their own time instead of always having them done at the group meetings.

Gary Gonzalez and I handled the interview with Mark Ferne. I wrote up some questions, but it was also very late at night that I was writing those questions so I decided to send them to everyone in the group to get some fresh ideas and see if anyone wanted to add more questions. Sammi Branch contributed with some questions for me and Gary to ask Mark and that was helpful. Also, Sammi and I worked on a survey for our project. She wrote most of it and then she had some questions of what she should and shouldn’t include and I helped her come up with some ideas. I was successful because my contributions I was able to do them on my own time. Gary and I actually did the interview with Mark a week before it was due because we both had time during the day.

I think our group needed a team leader. No one really stepped up and became a leader so we were all kind of passive about it. We were passive about who should do what which lead to us doing some things on our own. This means that we had an organization issue with our project. No one could take a stand of what they actually wanted to do for the project and so we had to figure it out along the way instead of just knowing what we each had to do and do it.

I know this always happens within a group that people will do more than others, but I think we did a good job at balancing everything out. It did turn out where some people did more than others, but I don’t feel like people were doing too much more than the others.

I really liked the group I worked with. I think Gary, Brendan, Sammi, and Lexie are really on top of their priorities and they were really helpful when I couldn’t make it to the group meetings. They were also helpful with ideas and whenever I asked for help they were quick and willing to help. Like I said it would be nice to have someone step up and take the lead and help guide the group. I would work with them again.