Challenges
In terms of the progress of the assignment delegating tasks seemed to be an effective way to cover the workload. However, I feel that our team meetings tend to be not as effective as they could be firstly because some team members don’t come and secondly because we don’t spend enough time working out everything that needs to be done before delegating tasks. This tends to mean that some components of the task are overlooked. I’ve learnt so far that it is much harder to work in a group with people you are less familiar with. I think because you don’t know each other very well you are less likely to provide constructive criticism and discuss ideas and approaches you just want to get in and get out as quickly as possible. I think this is the difference between group work and team work. At the moment we are operating as a group. Group work seems to be more like everyone does their own little bit and then adds it together for the final product i.e. the outcome is the output time by the amount of group members. Team work on the other hand seems to be a more inclusive process where everyone works together to achieve the outcome which is far greater than that of the individual output x by the amount of team members.
