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team contract

Teambuilding Groundwork

Team and Project Name

  • project name: heART
  • team name: [[working title here]]

Individual Skills/Strengths

Chris
  • Organization/Time Management
  • Streamlining interactions with people
  • Planning
    Kenneth
  • Developing creative and optimal ideas
  • Communication and feedback
  • HTML/CSS/JS
    Landon
  • Ethnographic methods, interviews, note-taking
  • Qualitative research experience
  • Storytelling

Guiding Principles (General code of conduct)

  • Don’t be an ass. This means mutual respect, open communication, clear delegation, do your work, and being honest.
  • Excellence: do the best you can do. It’s about not just doing the task, but making sure you’re giving your best effort.

Preliminary focus on purpose

  • Our external stakeholders can be anyone who uses data on artwork. Researchers, faculty, students, curators, visitors, staff, artists.
  • Our ultimate goal is to make a more robust spreadsheet for curators and researchers, by using qualitative data. We will use this to make a search engine function. More TBD.
  • Make people care about art and how it makes them feel (revise this).

Dividing up teamwork: Group Roles

  • Shared responsibility
  • Equal division of work, but also flexibility
  • Keep a running list of items already accomplished
  • Keep a list of items to accomplish

Dividing up the task: division of labor

  • Shared responsibility, shared profits. We’re not pure capitalists and bureaurocrats here.
  • Delegation based on skills or skills we want to develop.
  • Consideration given to pressing deadlines, exam schedules, etc.

Developing a team plan (based roughly off our syllabus)

  • Brainstorm product -> revise/incorporate individual proposal feedback
  • Team Name: [[Working Title Here]]
  • Create logo (Kenneth)
  • Create proposal page (Landon)
  • Citations/source material directory
  • Link to project page on individual course pages (all of us)

Meeting management: frequency, focus, how to handle conflict

  • Default once a week
  • Flexible but responsible

Rewards/punishments/accountability

  • Success: recognition and snack bar.
  • Failure to meet commitments and non-performance: major intervention with large posters and public humiliation.
  • In all actuality, we’ll talk about it.

Follow-up

  • Revisit at midterms.
  • Contract revision: identify what’s not working, respect dissenting voices. Worst case, escalate to supervision.
  • Non-covered issues can be addressed in the group chat. If escalation is required, include Iris.

Contact Information

Name UNIX
Landon LM9
Kenneth TA7
Chris CLA1

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