Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses Space: Symposium for Part-Time, Adjunct and Contingent Educators June 10, 2017 Atlanta, GA Abi Salimi, Ph.D. and Hassan Pournaghshband, Ph.D. Department of Software Engineering and Game Development Kennesaw State University 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 2 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses
Introduction List of some courses with term projects Average size of the projects Sample domains of the projects Challenges with team projects 3 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses Phases of a Team Project 1. Project Selection 2. Team Formation 3. Project Planning & Execution 4. Progress Monitoring 5. Project and Team Member Evaluations 4 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses
Project Selection Satisfy the curriculum requirements Incorporate new technology Applicable to real world situations Interesting, engaging and not boring Can complete within a term 5 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses Question for Audience How do you determine the team projects? https://goodquestionconsulting.com/tag/audience-questions/ 6 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses
Phases of a Team Project 1. Project Selection 2. Team Formation 3. Project Planning & Execution 4. Progress Monitoring 5. Project and Team Member Evaluations 7 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses Team Formation Stages www.acqnotes.com/acqnote/careerfields/team-development-stages 8 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses
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 9 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses Team Member Selection Selected at random Identified by students Selected by instructor based on each experience www.mgmt2000.com/culture-engagement/employee-engagement/ 10 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses
Question for Audience How do you form teams? https://goodquestionconsulting.com/tag/audience-questions/ 11 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses Team Member Roles Assigned by either the instructor or the team Team Lead, Team Contact, and others Documented in a project plan bizztro.tumblr.com/post/73924268202/dr-belbins-guide-to-team-formation 12 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses
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. hbr.org/2012/04/the-new-science-of-building-great-teams 13 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses Team Member Communications Supply appropriate templates Agenda and minutes Project plan Project deliverables Etc. Encourage/require use of document naming and versioning hbr.org/2012/04/the-new-science-of-building-great-teams 14 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses
Question for Audience What communication tools do you use? For documents For messaging https://goodquestionconsulting.com/tag/audience-questions/ 15 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses Phases of a Team Project 1. Project Selection 2. Team Formation 3. Project Planning & Execution 4. Progress Monitoring 5. Project and Team Member Evaluations 16 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses
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. www.coleyconsulting.co.uk/projplan.htm 17 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses Phases of a Team Project 1. Project Selection 2. Team Formation 3. Project Planning & Execution 4. Progress Monitoring 5. Project and Team Member Evaluations 18 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses
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 www.projectsmart.co.uk/img/status-updates.png 19 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses Question for Audience How do you track the progress of the projects? https://goodquestionconsulting.com/tag/audience-questions/ 20 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses
Phases of a Team Project 1. Project Selection 2. Team Formation 3. Project Planning & Execution 4. Progress Monitoring 5. Project and Team Member Evaluations 21 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses 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 www.hestem.ac.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/events_image/evaluation_image_fr om_istock.jpg 22 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses
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. cdn.teachhub.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/smiley%20face%20options.jpg 23 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses Question for Audience How do you evaluate the team members? https://goodquestionconsulting.com/tag/audience-questions/ 24 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses
Conclusion 1. Project Selection 2. Team Formation 3. Project Planning & Execution 4. Progress Monitoring 5. Project and Team Member Evaluations http://clipartall.com/img/clipart-89378.html 25 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses 26 Managing Team Projects in Undergraduate Courses
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