Before we look at our Lab tasks for Project Preparation phase, we need to revisit what we were supposed to have finished in our previous phase - "Team Organization".
Assignment #10
You created calendars, added Bimtech calendar, but it is still of no use in actually planning team events in a collaborative manner. Unless every team member will add all the events he/she is attending, your shared calendars are of no use to your team members. To make this easy, this week all section representatives will create section calendars and invite all students in the section to all calendar events as appropriate. Each team leader will create team calendar, plan some team events and invite all team members. Each team member then needs to add his/her personal events to ensure that any other person interested in inviting for a meeting has full picture of your free time slots.
Assignment #11
From time to time, all of you will need to send messages to entire groups. For this purpose, you need to have the email groups which you can use while creating email messages. Each team therefore is requeted to create a contact group of their own team members with the name in the format 'Gr99' where 99 stands for your group number like 01 to 24. Then export this contact group to a .csv file. Send this file as attachement to your TA. TAs will compile these files and provide them to all students. Each student then can import these files and create groups in their own system.
The last step in "Team Organization" is Quality Assuarance. You have done team assessment last week. You must have noticed there is wide variation in how each team has done their assessment. In many teams, almost everyone has scored full marks, although it is quite clear many students are still struggling with basics. This is the result of lack of Quality Assuarance procedures. We are now forming the QA team, which will lay down quality standards and measure the quality delivered by each team.
Assignment #12
QA team will lay down quality standards for all the above mentioned 11 assignments and then create the assessment spreadsheets (similar to what you have already used) and get the measures of quality of work completed by each team. Those teams which meet the quality requirements, will proceed for the next stage of the course.
Now we are ready with teams which are properly organized to undertake the project.
Project Preparation activities were described in Fifth Class. This week you are going to start working to create your product, a Chapter of the Book.
Assignment #13
The first step is to identify which chapter of the book you are going to write. Select a topic that all your team members would really enjoy studying it together. Some teams will be inclined to take a topic that is more Management Discipline oriented while other teams will be more inclined to choose a topic that is Technology oriented. You should be choosing a topic that is from Part 2 and Part 3 of the book. Part 1 will be written after all other chapters are completed and Part 4 will be created from all that I am writing in this blog. Work with your TAs and finalize your topic.
Assignment #14
Now you all need to research this topic. Allocate each team member to research from different sources of knowledge. Check out my bookmarks with tag "research". You will find out where you can go to research information on the web. Each team member will do the research and create bookmarks on Delicious. All bookmarks created should have tags "bim520" and your group number "Gr99". In addition depending upon the topic you may add more tags. Now each member is expected to have learned enough about the topic to move on to next step.
Assignment # 15
Have a brain storming session among your team members and prepare an outline for the chapter using Microsoft word template. Once outline is ready transfer it to Google shared word document.
Assignment #16
Each team member will create content for the section of the chapter that is allocated to him/her. Upto about 2 pages of content by each team member is quite adequate.
Assignment #17
Now the control of the shared document is transfered to the "Author" in the team. The Author will have the rights to edit the document, all other team members will only have "view" previledges. The authors will thoroughly edit the full chapter. Now you have a basic backbone of your product.
Assignment #18
Now you clothe and add ornaments to your backbone. Create sections like "Learning Objectives", "References", "Diagrams", "Figures", "Illustrations", "Review Questions", "Bibliography" etc. etc.
Pass on your work to QA team and congratulate your team for successfully completing one of the most important steps of your project. Go ahead and Celebrate!
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