What is your project and what dilemma does it aim to address.
outline the idea and the rationale behind it. Define the project aims and audience and identify how your idea is diferent from / improves upon other current oferings. Identify areas of social & mobile theory that apply to, will inform your concept & approach.
Who is on your team, what are their responsibilities, and how will you work together? List all the members and their course code. Identify:
- Who will lead the team and manage the project;
- Who is responsible for logistics e.g. equipment, meetings, transport, etc;
- Who fills key roles, e.g. back end, front end, content, design;
- How will decisions be made;
- How will the team handle poor performance and resolve conflicts.
Where and when will your team meet and how will you all communicate? Where will files 1 be stored and shared? What are the file naming conventions? Identify the social platform/s your team has adopted and explain the choice. How will it facilitate communication and / or file sharing?
- Meetings are held during the contact weekly and additional meeting is considered if it is necessary.The additional meeting should be proved by every teammember and the time will be decided based on the available schedule of the whole team,ensuring everyone can attend the meeting.
- Every team member should need to report what they had done in the last week,what they are doing right now and what they are going to do in the weekly meeting during the contact session,making sure that the team project is on track.
- A at least 24-hours meeting notice should be given which involves meeting location,time and meeting contents.Hence,team members can prepare to the meeting.Every team member is required to attend the meeting except for reasonable reasons and a 24-hour notice should be given through Facebook group to the team members.
- If a team member sledom reply any Facebook messages or contribute to the team,a warming would be given to him/her at first.If continued failure to comply,the team would disscus with tutor about current situation and probobaly take further actions on Peer Assessments.
- Facebook message would be the primary instance communication channel for project notification and project management because every teammember has their Facebook account on their phone,ensuring all the newest updates of project can be known by every team member at the first time and nothing urgent is missed.In addition,every team member should give respond within 24 hour.
- Slack would be used as well,sice it's not mobile and less convinience comparing with Facebook message.Because all the DECO2800 tutors are on slack which it is useful for the team to seek help from tutors and to solve problems,the Slack is considered as secondary communication channels.
- Google drive and Github would be used as support tool for sharing resources online and since it will have record for each one's contribution and the team can identify the current project easily from the records and adjust the workload.Also,Google drive and Github allowing multiple people working on the same document at the same time which can improve the team efficiency dreamatically.
The default naming convention for all the files would be :TEAMNAME_XXX
Identify the key tasks that need to be completed and when. Identify:
- Project phases e.g. research; requirements; design; construction;
- Key deliverables for each phase (Milestones) ; 2
- Resources – equipment or other tools/people you might need.