Team Leader Training

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Team Leader Training

• How to manage a team
• or be on a team
• (and survive)

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Being a Team

• Every member should feel that they are
  contributing
• Every member should feel that others are
  contributing
• Every member should know for what she/he is
  responsible
• Every member should do all types of tasks

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Team Building

• Misunderstandings destroy teams
• Many businesses spend much effort on team
  building
• Teams work better with trust
• Ice breakers
• TTYT each team member tells one thing good that
  happened this week

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Icebreakers

• For next four team meetings, start with one of
  the following (or similar)
• Favorite TV show and why it is a favorite
• Best first job after college
• Last movie you watched
• Favorite song or musical group
• Mutter a lot, blame me, etc but do it! (I may ask)

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Team Organization

• Everyone does everything
• specialized roles not allowed
• Text (p62) calls it Controlled Decentralized
• problem solving as a group
• team leader delegates responsibilities

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Leadership

• Multiple styles
• find your own style
• Lead - dont be the whole team
• you cant do everything yourself
• Lead - dont follow
• dont let team members drive the team
• Lead - dont drive
• dont be a dictator
• Build up your team members

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Team Meetings

• One of the most common complaints is that
  meetings are not productive
• Be organized
• have agenda for meeting
• know due dates
• have schedule at least till next presentation
• set assignments

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TTYP 1

• What do you (as a team member) expect from your
  team leader?
• Or, what makes a great team leader?
• Turn in names and team number

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Posting assignments/issues/decisions

• Each team leader will post
• A weekly list of tasks and evaluation of last
  weeks results
• A semester list of issues and decisions
  (chronological) this may change during the
  semester
• Must be posted by noon on Fridays

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Team Grades

• Submit Weekly by Email on Friday
• Starting Friday, Sep 8th
• Justify grades less than 100
• On web 0-10 pts (actual 0-100)
• Advice
• Dont Promise
• Be harder at the beginning - it is easier to
  become more lenient than to become more demanding
• Create a grading rubric send me a copy (by Sep
  8)

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Presentations

• Team Web page current 24 hours before
• presentation form and CD
• Dress Appropriately (coat and tie)
• 50 minutes (Pres 1 - 25 min )
• introduce team
• introduce project
• present materials
• answer questions
• Rubric sheet

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Presentation Goals

• Experience
• Communication
• what is team doing
• Evaluation and Direction
• evaluate documentation and code
• Feedback from Professor and TA
• Grading is not based on correctness of ideas

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Presentation Rubric Sheet

• Each category
• Short description of expectations
• Points for different levels
• Bold indicates normal
• Paper copy needs to be circled and turned in 24
  hours before presentation with CD containing all
  required documentation (DONT ZIP FILES)

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First Presentation

• Week of September 18-20
• Documentation - on team page and CD
• Description of Project
• assumptions, capabilities, limitations
• Object Model (OMT)
• classes, relationships, attributes
• State Diagram
• Projector
• postscript files, powerpoint, rose

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TTYP2 Discussion

• What can you do to make your team better?

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Non-cooperation

• Talk with team member
• Make sure assignments are clear and written
• Give low weekly percentages
• Make assignments non-critical
• Request that grading is separate

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Team member interviews

• Every team leader needs to interview each team
  member separately.
• Get to know each other
• Find out concerns of team members
• Determine strengths of each team member
• Send me a report by Sep 13th that details the
  meetings and includes a summary of the teams
  strengths and weaknesses (attach a word doc, no
  zip files)

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Assignments Thursday, Sep 7

• Topic Requirements Elicitation
• Review Pressman ch 7 and 8, esp pp 144-158
• PLQ Wed 11am to Thur 11am

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Be a successful team

• Communicate
• Organize
• Plan
• Succeed
• Good Luck