Post 21: Teamwork reflection

Shey: Teamwork on this project went smoothly. Each team member had a specific focus area and was able to get help from others when needed. We held team meetings almost every week and stuck closely to our initial division of tasks and roles from start to finish. One thing that could have gone better was doing a mock test earlier, this would have helped ensure everything was functioning smoothly before our user interview last week.

Tony: While I think we mostly followed all strategies, one strategy in particular that we followed were weekly meetings- we actually ended up meeting more frequently than that. One strategy that we adopted along the way was having a set time each week to work on the robot, and having a set time each week to go over the weekly assignment. I think we kind of followed the roles, although in terms of technical roles it ended up being more fluid than I expected (more collaboration), so it wasn’t just the person who had the role contributing to that part. Something that worked well was that everybody did what was assigned to them on time. I think one thing that could have been done earlier was combining all the separate portions of the robot, since we ran into some issues and it took longer than expected.

Evan: One strategy we adopted along the way was to actually let each member in the team focus on their area of interest and contribute their knowledge in the fields that they know the best. Each membered listed their interests in post#3 and everyone followed it well. One thing we did really well was to have group meetings regularly and everyone showed up for those. One thing we could have adopted was to go to the office hours and ask more questions. We had many things not fully working in our development phase and we didn't really realize that they would accumulate and become hard to solve/organize towards the end of the quarter.

Diana: We used the strategy of having weekly meetings for Post 3 and sharing each other's work well. Through weekly meetings, we shared work on weekly assignments and ideas for the project. As the project progressed, the branches seemed to have progressed quite differently from the roles assigned to Post 3, but as the project progressed, the team members divided the roles and worked well on the parts that were needed. If we had invested more time in integrating each other's work before the meeting with the users, the last week would not have been so rushed and tiring.