Management - Task Assessment 2 Assessment Answer

Task

Assessment 2 and Assessment 3 are to be completed using the Virtucon & Globex Scenario outlined in the project briefing Interact 2, (with additional resources found at  http://thinkspace.csu.edu.au/virtucon/  and http://thinkspace.csu.edu.au/globexcorp/ )

Assessment 2: You are to complete the following tasks based on the discussions and learnings from meetings held with your assigned team.  Your work should be submitted individually, and will be marked individually according to the rubric.

Part One:

Project Name / Team / Description

Working as a team you are to

· Agree on a suitable team name, list all team members and provide their contact details in a professional looking document.

· Provide an overview of the project on which you are working.

· Complete a project description.  This should be written clearly and concisely so that anyone unfamiliar with the project can fully understand the objectives. 

Team Charter

After your team agreed on a team name and identified all of the contact details of your team members, address the following points and present them in a professional looking document:

 Skills and Knowledge Inventory

List the specific knowledge and / or skills that each team member can contribute to the project.  This could be technical knowledge, communication or leadership skills.

Roles and Responsibilities – 

Define roles and responsibilities for each team member.  This can be defined for entire project or can be shared or even rotated.

Team Communications – 

Meeting Times & Location – Agree on mutually convenient times and location to convene to work on the case assignments.

Define how the team will communicate with each other and share information.  Also specify how meetings will be documented and where subsequent resources will be stored for ease of access.

Team Rules & Expectations 

 Build a set of rules and expectation that all members of the team shall abide by.  Consider team decisions, conflict, absence from meetings, and an individual’s lack of contribution for example.

Signatures – 

o Get each member of the team to sign the team charter.  This will indicate an understanding and agreement to the rules and expectations as specified in the points above.

Part Two: Learning Cycles

Learning cycles give structure to your team meetings and accountability for when you and your team work outside of the meeting schedule

Firstly, prior to your next meeting, assign roles to the team. There should only be two central roles – the organiser and the scribe