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Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses

Abi Salimi, Ph.D. and Hassan Pournaghshband, Ph.D. Department of Software Engineering and Game Development Kennesaw State University

Space: Symposium for Part-Time, Adjunct and Contingent Educators June 10, 2017 Atlanta, GA

Outline

Introduction Phases of a Team Project Project Selection Team Formation Stages

Team Member Selection Team Member Roles Team Member Communications

Project Plan Status Reporting Project Evaluation Team Member Evaluation Conclusion

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Introduction

List of some courses with term projects Average size of the projects Sample domains of the projects Challenges with team projects

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Phases of a Team Project

• 1. Project Selection
• 2. Team Formation
• 3. Project Planning & Execution
• 4. Progress Monitoring
• 5. Project and Team Member Evaluations

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Project Selection

Satisfy the curriculum requirements Incorporate new technology Applicable to real world situations Interesting, engaging and not boring Can complete within a term

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Question for Audience

How do you determine the team projects?

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https://goodquestionconsulting.com/tag/audience-questions/

Phases of a Team Project

• 1. Project Selection
• 2. Team Formation
• 3. Project Planning & Execution
• 4. Progress Monitoring
• 5. Project and Team Member Evaluations

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Team Formation Stages

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www.acqnotes.com/acqnote/careerfields/team-development-stages

Team Formation Stages

Forming

Team members start to know each other and start working together

Storming

approaches

Norming

strengths

Performing

Individuals work together without major conflicts to achieve the team goals

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Team Member Selection

Selected at random Identified by students Selected by instructor based on each experience

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www.mgmt2000.com/culture-engagement/employee-engagement/

Question for Audience

How do you form teams?

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https://goodquestionconsulting.com/tag/audience-questions/

Team Member Roles

Assigned by either the instructor or the team Team Lead, Team Contact, and others Documented in a project plan

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Team Member Communications

A mechanism is determined by either the instructor or the team Document repository

University course management system Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Doc, etc.

Online collaboration tool

University course management system Google+, Groupme, Slack, Skype, etc.

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hbr.org/2012/04/the-new-science-of-building-great-teams

Team Member Communications

Supply appropriate templates

Agenda and minutes Project plan Project deliverables Etc.

Encourage/require use of document naming and versioning

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hbr.org/2012/04/the-new-science-of-building-great-teams

Question for Audience

What communication tools do you use?

For documents For messaging

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https://goodquestionconsulting.com/tag/audience-questions/

Phases of a Team Project

• 1. Project Selection
• 2. Team Formation
• 3. Project Planning & Execution
• 4. Progress Monitoring
• 5. Project and Team Member Evaluations

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Project Plan

Scope Schedule Risks and mitigations Etc. Share with the class some lessons learned (e.g., risk of losing team members) from previous terms.

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www.coleyconsulting.co.uk/projplan.htm

Phases of a Team Project

• 1. Project Selection
• 2. Team Formation
• 3. Project Planning & Execution
• 4. Progress Monitoring
• 5. Project and Team Member Evaluations

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Status Reporting

Spend about 5 minutes in each class to ask about the status and risks of a couple of projects Require small deliverables every week Require meeting minutes containing attendance information, topics covered and action items

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www.projectsmart.co.uk/img/status-updates.png

Question for Audience

How do you track the progress of the projects?

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https://goodquestionconsulting.com/tag/audience-questions/

Phases of a Team Project

• 1. Project Selection
• 2. Team Formation
• 3. Project Planning & Execution
• 4. Progress Monitoring
• 5. Project and Team Member Evaluations

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Project Evaluation

Already disseminated clear and detailed rubrics Completeness and correctness of all the deliverables Organization, format and writing style Team in-class presentation of the project

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www.hestem.ac.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/events_image/evaluation_image_fr

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Team Member Evaluation

Overall project score is given to all members Deliverables of each member are used to evaluate the respective student Peer evaluation score (Pe) is used in conjunction with the overall project score (Pr) to compute

a. M = Pe/(score of member receiving highest Pe)*Pr

• b. M = Pe, as described below

Pe is the average of the scores given to each member by his

• peers. Each member is to distribute Pr (n-1) among his team
• members. n is the number of peers of each student.

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Question for Audience

How do you evaluate the team members?

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https://goodquestionconsulting.com/tag/audience-questions/

Conclusion

• 1. Project Selection
• 2. Team Formation
• 3. Project Planning & Execution
• 4. Progress Monitoring
• 5. Project and Team Member Evaluations

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