CSC 322.01, Class 06: Team building

Overview

• Preliminaries
  • Notes and news
  • Upcoming work
  • Extra credit
  • Questions
• Background on strengths themes
• Project roles
• Team discussions
• Group report-in

Preliminaries

Notes and news

Upcoming work

• First sprint presentation
  • Short class presentation.
  • An overview of your project.
  • What you see as your main tasks for the first two weeks.
    • With point values.
  • The status of the project (if you can tell)

Good things to do: Academic

• CS Table and Extras
• Movie Sunday: I Am Not Your Negro, 4pm in the Strand

Good things to do: Miscellaneous

• Indoor Track and Field Saturday at 9:30 am.
• Swimming Saturday at 1:00 pm.
• Tennis meet Sunday at 10:00 am.
• Posse Plus Retreat Reflections, Community Hour next week (Tuesday, 11am, JRC 101)

Friday PSA

• You are awesome.
• Take care of yourself.
• You can feel comfortable with your decisions.
• But make most decisions in advance, not on the spur of the moment.
• Be careful about generic Solo cups.
• And if you choose to cohabit, consent is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.

Questions

Background on strengths themes

• We are building teams.
• Sometimes we build teams based on knowledge of characteristics.
  • Myers-Briggs
• Strengths Quest was built from a study in which they surveyed Fortune 500 CEOs about important characteristics of successful people at their institutions.
• Replicable
• Based on sound psychological (or social theory)
• Sam thinks Strengths Quest is neither. And he’s willing to say that on a public Web site.
• But there’s value in thinking about the skills on a team.
• We’ll use them to think about how we work as teams.

Project roles

• Manager
• Communicator - Sets up meetings; makes sure that client and mentor feel involved
• Product Owner - Represents the client when the client is not available.
• Designer (UI/UX Lead)
• Tester - Writes, runs, designs/finds infrastructure for, …
• Energizer - Brings snacks, ensures positive team morale
• Presentation lead - For the weekly presentations
• Technical planner
• Documenter
• Scribe - Takes meeting minutes
• Repository owner - Reviews all pull requests (edits)
• Lead programmer

Team discussions

• Share your strength themes.
• Share your theme to work on.
• Decide on roles.
• If there’s time, discuss how you will help other members of your team work on their themes.

Group report-in

• Just reporting roles.