Team Proposal Reflection

Overall I would say that my group was moderately successful. While we did complete the project to a satisfactory level, there were a lot of things that could have been improved on and that could have gone better. One of the greatest challenges we faced as a group was trying to find time that would work for all of us to meet: as five people with extremely hectic schedules, there wasn’t a single time when we were all able to meet as a group in its entirety. We tried to overcome this by setting dates ahead of time to meet so people could get the time free as necessary and by choosing times that worked for the greatest number of people. This was sometimes successful, but other times some members of the group would forget that we had a meeting or would get tied up in something and would not show up to the meeting. In one particular case, we had scheduled to meet Sunday at 6 p.m. and only two of the five members of the group showed up and we weren’t able to get anything done because we didn’t have the materials we needed to complete the assignment.

I contributed a lot to the project and was able to attend every meeting. I made it a priority to make free time to attend the meetings and contributed to the best of my ability, trying to keep the group on task and productive. During most meetings I would type while we brainstormed out loud what to say. For the final editing of the paper, we were supposed to meet on Sunday but most of the group members didn’t show up. I was busy for the rest of the week and let my group know that I wouldn’t be able to meet again at all, but could help edit it via email after they worked on it a bit and added in all the information from our peer reviews. I checked in twice throughout the week making sure that things were getting done and got the impression that they were, but Friday night an hour before the assignment was due I checked my email and had received an email saying that nothing had been done yet. I tried to get in touch with some of the members of my team but it ultimately fell on my shoulders to complete the editing, even though I didn’t have the peer review sheets nor had I even seen them. I edited the document taking into account your notes, but I think the overall quality of the assignment suffered because of our lack of coordination.

If I could do the assignment over again, I would make sure the assignments got done ahead of time and tried to find a time that worked better for everyone to meet. I would text/call/email everyone in the group as necessary to remind them about the meeting beforehand to make sure that they didn’t miss it — especially if they said they would be there and didn’t have any scheduling conflicts. I think overall as a team we worked really well together, but needed to be better about our group meetings and actually getting the work completed.