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TEAM 18
Project Planet Seafood
Project OverviewClient Background
15 years old fresh family owned seafood business called "Planet Seafood".
Initial core business was specialized in selling lobsters.
5 years ago the client began expanding the business
Provides seafood report and recipes for ABC radio
Project Background
It's a single page website
Website contains no business contact information.
Allows subscription to weekly newsletter
WebsiteCurrent PlanetSeafood websiteCreated by a “professional company”
Project ObjectivesDevelop a fully functional website
Offering customers the ability to shop online
Contains company background history
Contains a backend for client maintenance of website
Includes recipes/ video cooking presentation
Team Processes
Democratic and open process of organisation of work and activities
Work/ idea is proposed openly
Discussion of the work/ idea
Tested and trial idea/work
Feedback from work/ idea
Refine and improve
Aim for constant improvement of team work
Methods of CommunicationEmails
Mobile phones for immediate or urgent needs
Weekly Skype meeting on Wednesday 7 PM
Weekly contact on Monday meeting at 9 AM
Additional meetings to be decided by project leader
Friday meeting to overlook and discuss project deliverable
Reflection on CommunicationNo confusion with communication because
ALL members are included in ALL emails.
Status update one day before initial draft deadline allows project team leader to react to possible problems
Constant communication ensures everyone is constantly in the loop
Allocation of ActivitiesWork is discussed on Friday tutorial
Group discussion to decide which part would best suit individual member’s skill and expertise
Work is allocated evenly
Assign deadline for work to be completed on Monday 9 AM
Initial Draft compiled on Monday night
Each team member revise draft and send team leader revision of draft in highlighted colour
Reflection on Allocation of ActivitiesWhat didn’t work?
Setting work to be done on a day without a firm deadline
Group review of work over Skype was time consuming and inefficient
Reflection on Allocation of Activities
What worked?Set deadline for work to be completed
Revision to be done separately and in own time.
Amended work to be highlighted in a different colour
Reliant on team members being able to work independently and effectively
Where We StandProject is in its early stages
Our problems have been primarily team member issues
No project issues or client issues to report as yet
First Major ProblemMissed a deadline by several days
Insufficient time to review the product
During this review time, some team members had classes
Led to desperate last minute review
Our SolutionIncreased communication, particularly with
deadlines approaching
Review of deadlines, discussion of the importance of each deadline
Refinement of work practises focusing on document review
The OutcomeMet every deadline during next deliverable
Overcame many new challenges while still meeting these deadlines
Second Major ProblemWeek 5, one of our team members dropped
the subject
We’d already had several team and client meetings, and a social outing
Significantly impacted the morale of the group
Issues This CausedThe member’s work had to be completed
within our deadlines
Team was unmotivated, working on a project that may be cancelled
This made committing to team communication more difficult
Our SolutionsLessons learnt earlier helped us overcome
this
When the member left we were ahead of deadlines
Our schedule was lenient, allowed small over-runs without effecting further deadlines
Good communication practise helped us, though communication did fall a bit
Third Major ProblemReceived a new team member
Sent team back to “forming” phase
Required social integration within team
Introduction of work practises, software tools, etc
Introduction to client and the project
Our SolutionOrganise a second social outing, doubling as
a work break for our current team members
Regular communication and with our new member to aid integration
Introduction to software and work practises as early as possible