Command | Control | Communications

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This is a good reference for getting the project started.

JP

The postings below are from the demonstration coordinating blog from last semester. You may get a sense of what those students went through, so I left most there.

I'm going to add a bunch of empty lines to set some distance for your scanning sake, though.

Team Owl would like to perform its demonstration on Friday, March 26th. Please let us know if this is possible :)

Good, hunches can work sometimes.

Keep it up!

Nice to see people starting to pull together! Good work so far.

I added the links on this page to each of your Team Sites. Please get your teams familiar with them, the details you'll need are there.

i'm pretty much basing these duties on a hunch. i think we are all capable of doing each job well, but from what i can infer from my group members, here's the list.

there will be one person in charge of production. lets call the producer walt disney (sorry professor Power, first producer i could think of). walt disney has mentioned his skills as an artist and that is the main reason he will recieve this job.

there will be two sergeant-at-arms, again for the sake of anominity, we will call them sergent elias and sergent barnes. this may be the most important job and therefore there will be two members assigned. elias and barnes are both practical team players who will be able to work with each other as well as the rest of the group. i have worked in a group with sergent barnes and he is a great team person who is always ready to help out, or complete the next task.

the planner seems to be the brains behind the operation. we will call this person bill belichick. i am expecting a lot of quality contributions and ideas from bill and i dont think that will be a problem.

Hi Prof. Power,

Here's the story. I have assigned my teammates their positions.

She-Ra is the planning person. I have great faith that this person has some ideas churning.

Wonder Woman is our sargeant. She is wonderful at planning and organization, key assets to this project.

He-Man is our production person. I know he is creative and will have innovative ideas for the demonstration.

Last, but not least, Strawberry Shortcake is the helper. She needs to help us all by supplementing new ideas and assisting with the production process.

I believe that this team will be heard around the campus......"What do we want? Beans!"-John Power

This is what I had in mind.

Yes, many people will have sufficent skill sets to do any job, but the time has come to specialize.

The hard part for the coordinator's will be motivating everyone and keeping the project on schedule.

The four of you were chosen because you need a good shot at "running" a team, not just "blending" requests together. You might have dissapointed people on your team, to greater or lesser degrees, and that's a big part of being a manager. The trick is to create a "corporate culture" where individual contribution is more important and valued higher than individual achievement.

Should there be discussion about task allocation, you might present your observations to people, "you show a strong interest in XYZ, did I read that wrong?"

Beware the temptation to start cutting deals, though! If you (all coordinators) start to blend jobs together to "keep people happy" things will start to bog down. Whenever two people have an opportunity to nominate the other for missing a deadline, they seem to use it, nicely or not. This project is a series of short-duration projects, hit 'em and quit 'em!

These positions were difficult for me to assign, only because I feel that my teams qualities are equally distributed. I feel that we all possess artistic, creative and reliable qualities and each want to participate in a bit of each of the tasks...I like getting input from teammates before assigning tasks, but maybe this would work better, we shall see...

My production pick "007" is creative and artistic. She is responsible and reliable. I feel our team would benefit the most with her artistic skills in this position.

The person assigned to the sergeant-at-arms position, "00" is without a doubt a team-player. She is very keen to details and will execute demands well.

The Planning person "XX" is a creative thinker, very practical and has original ideas and is self-motivated

I'm assuming that since there are 3 positions and there are 5 team members that I can assign two people per task...Is that right?? so In that case, I would put another person on Planning and assign another person to the sergeant at arms position, both for the same qualities listed above...

Hope I did this right...
and how did I become the manager!! All I did was sign up for the blog!!--hehe

Hi, not as involved as it sounds: who's doing what.

Just tell me why you're putting people in their jobs. Again, don't use their names here, you can tell me in class or put it on your Team Blog, but you can say "my planner has X, Y, and Z for qualities." If you're not too sure of legitimate qualifications, go on a hunch.

A part of this exercise is to develop your skills as managers, if hunches have limits, let's find it out early.

K I'm in.