Third Class: Project Overview

Last week, we formed the teams. 10 persons, who have never known each other in the past, have been asked to collaborate and do a project. It is going to take a while to find out who is good at what, what are their behaviourial patterns etc.

This week, you are being given more information about your collaborative team project.

We, as a complete group of 240 students, are going to write a book in next 8 weeks. Your team of 10 students is going to write a chapter from that book. You will use all the collaboration technologies that you are learning in developing and marketing of this product.
Please access this shared spreadsheet.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/bimtech.ac.in/ccc?key=0AleNZxzmU_FldDB0QTJ4V3E4by01ZVJSSUJUMVpVbUE&hl=en&authkey=CMibvzY
The sheet titled "Plan" lists down the weekly project phases and the activities that you are expected to do week by week. Various Book chapters are proposed in the sheet titled "Book Chapters" as a starting point for debate before we finalize the list of chapters for the book and assignment thereof to each team.

We also reviewed the process of Team Development. The stages of "Form", "Storm", "Norm" and "Perform". You will pass through all these stages. Try to identify these phases and quickly try to move into "Perform" stage.

You were also explained about the next exercises. Identifying 10 prospects per team member and drafting out an email campaign message. Preparation of a Project Charter and defining standards for the final product.

In our next class, we will do a demo of all these exercises to prepare you for doing these exercises in the following Lab session.

Regarding a few issues that you had identified with other assignments, here are few explanations:

• Many of you, had problems in getting to the bookmarked websites using Delicious. At this link you will find screen shots of how to do this task.
• https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1H_V0tX0Q73HLjX11Kfba-3fyQZ6nElSypVIDKgzR_iE&hl=en&authkey=CNP__OIC
• You can also call/email Megha, your Teaching Assistant, at 99713 14418. She will be able to explain you the solution.
• You were also not able to add Bimtech calendar. Eugene is creating a new calendar and that will shared with you very soon.

rest we will deal in next class.
wish you all the best,
AR