DIDO2 Team Presentation

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DIDO2 Team Presentation

• Why Teams Do Work
• Michelle Dalmau, Matt Dever,
• Andrew Stevens and Charlene Wagner

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Introductions

• Team Members Michelle, Matt, Andrew and Charlene
• Digital Images Delivered Online (DIDO), Version 2
  (DIDO2)
• Create an Image Repository
• Enhance browsing and searching
• Provide ability to generate presentations for
  class lectures / study guides

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Why teams work

• Inclusive decision making
• Willingness to contribute and discuss ideas
  freely
• Team members respect and value each other
• Team developed strong interpersonal bonds
• Commitment to team goals over personal goals

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Group Decision Making

• All the pluses of Consensus and none of the
  minuses
• All the pluses of Expert and none of the minus
• All the pluses of Authority Rule With
  Discussion and none of the minuses

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Deferential Democracy

• Metaphor for our team process
• Our expert was connected, and was afforded
  respect
• Our expert respected us in return, and no ideas
  were ignored
• We used an amalgamation of the models described
  earlier, which left us in a perpetual state of
  productiveness (versus corruptiveness)

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Work Process

• Held regular meetings
• Primarily used for planning, exchanging
  information, and dividing labor.
• Multiple electronic means of communication
• E-mail discussion list
• Shared server space
• Yahoo e-mail archive and group calendar
• Group web portal

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Team Work Flow
Fine Arts Faculty -Primary user group -many
variations in teaching styles some rely on DIDO
and like resources for lectures, others DONT
Survey
Professor Hara -Identify timelines and
project guidelines -Provide information
and feedback
Fine Arts Slide Library -Gatekeeper of DIDO
-responsible for adding images and
metadata -help recruit users
Limited time and faculty participation
Digital Library Program -Technical support for
DIDO -host collection and images, -provide
best practices for digitization
Michelle -Liason between project team and other
stakeholders -Contribute specialized skills
Meeting agendas and moments -Method for
monitoring progress
Matt -Contribute outside perspective and
specializedskills
DIDO2 Portal Page -Enables easy access to
shared work
Charlene -Contribute outside perspective and
specialized skills
provide continuous input and feedback
Yahoo Calendars -Help with scheduling
Difficult to maintain
Andrew -Contribute outside perspective and
specialized skills
Difficult to maintain
Asynchronous communciation
Group Space on Ella -Enables document sharing
DIDO2 Team
Majordomo email list -allowed for
continuous communication
-Create work models -Participate in user
interviews -Identify and prototype design
ideas -Collaborate in all aspects of team
project -Identify and monitor project timelines
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Team Artifacts/Tools

• Team portal page
• Yahoo Group Calendar
• Shared server space on Ella
• Majordomo email list
• Syllabus
• Contextual Design Book

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Team Sequence Model
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Team Physical Model
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DIDO2 Team Cultural Model
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Group stages

• Forming, storming, norming, performing Moving
  teams through stages of success
• Forming
• -identifying similarities, expectations, and
  purpose
• Storming
• -identifying roles and responsibilities
• Norming
• -forming of strong group relationship
• Performing
• -time of personal growth and group
  accomplishment

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Forming

• Quick formation! As you can see by our first
  meetings agenda
• Learned about each other current areas of
  expertise, interests, weaknesses
• Explained context (DLP/Slide Library, see
  cultural model)
• Reviewed problem definition and general interests
  in the proposed project
• Reviewed existing DIDO 2 documentation (survey
  results)
• Starter tasks assigned

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Storming

• A time of stressful negotiation of the terms
  under which the team will work together, a trial
  by fire
• Members brought a wealth of experience with them
  to the group
• A coherent and focused team developed from the
  onset
• The project was well-defined

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Group Norming

• The group as a whole gains in focus and
  unanimity.
• Constant state of norming
• Re-normed as needed to adapt to new tasks at
  hand
• Continuous and fluid sharing of information and
  ideas

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Performing

• Group entered the "performing" stage very quickly
  out of necessity
• Early consensus on team goals helped coalesce
  members' commitment.
• Frequent informal team communication kept
  everyone informed of each member's tasks and
  requirements from others
• The team's intimacy helped ensure easy, casual
  intra-team communication

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Teams Current State

• Experiencing disconnect between class
  requirements and actual project evolution
• From engaging, deliberate work (thru contextual
  inquiries) to fragmented, rushed work
• Prototyping -- huge leap with only 4 contextual
  inquiries documented. Hi-Fi, grayscale screen
  designs, work in progress.
• Usability Testing -- due too soon! Difficult to
  recruit faculty this time of year. Considering
  alternatives to Walkthrough such as guided
  Heuristic Evaluation.
• Working to keep overall purpose, which exceeds
  classroom expectations, in sight

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The DIDO2 Team Perseveres
Teamwork by Keith Haring