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Team purpose

The members of Team WYSIWYG have been brought together to assist each other in two graphics design units, “Design solutions BSBDES401A” and “Creative Thinking BSBCRT301A”. Team members must elect a leader, generate guidelines, a timeline and a charter along with the units’ requirements for generating a group Tumblr blog themed “Hobbies” maintained by all team members, which requires five pieces of content by each team member, with the desired outcome of successful results in both units mentioned above for all team members.

Duration and time commitment:

Team WYSIWYG has been commissioned to work for six weeks between the dates of 31st of August and 25th of October 2015, excluding the mid semester break between the dates 21st of September and 4th of October. The estimated average amount of time dedicated by each team member per week is 6 hours, including dedicated meeting times to discuss the direction of the team.

Scope:

The following are in scope for Team WYSIWYG for the duration of this project: 1. Critical functions of each team member 2. Communications, reporting and problem solving by the team vie the facebook group 3. Creation, review and update of all documents on team facebook group 4. Creation and maintenance of team Tumblr blog 5. Assistance and management of team members to deliver documents and content accurately and on time. 6. Weekly meetings for discussions, problem solving and updates and reports through team facebook group.

Members:

Gillian Whear – Team Leader

Jelal Hallac

Jess Andersen

Lynne Debreceny

Desired end result:

The goal of Team WYSIWYG is to assist each other in clearly documenting all required activities of the team outlined in “Deliverables” within the time frame described in the Team Project Planning Timeline, which will result in the successful completion of the two units involved.

Supporting resources:

The team requires access to team facebook group, tumblr, software for creating, editing and submitting documents. The team also may require the assistance of unit teacher Mr. Roger Noakes should the team members fail to overcome problems that may arise during project.

Reporting plan:

The team will communicate progress through the team’s facebook group “Team WYSIWYG” which is also monitored by the team teacher, Roger Noakes. The reporting frequency is weekly and should include the problems the team and/or individual members are facing as well as the progress of the team milestones outline in Team Project Planning Timeline.

Deliverables:

The deliverables include the creation of following content:

1. Team Project Planning Timeline

2. Ethical Framework

3. Team Project Charter

4. Posting above documents on main unit blog at generatedesignsolutions.wordpress.com

5. Creation of a team Tumblr blog themed “Hobbies” with a contribution of 5 pieces of content submitted by each team member.

With the following KPI’s:

1. Team member presence on weekly meetings.

2. Average time to complete weekly tasks.

3. Number of on-time tasks.

4. Number of late tasks.

5. Number of errors.

Week 6: Complete individual contributions to the team project, and upload all work to the teams tumblr and dropbox. By this stage all work should be completed.

Members: Sophie Edwards, Sonia Vuchich, Linda Fitzpatrick and Tori Hodgkiss.

Desired end result: The goals for this unit include working effectively as a team with all members equally contributing to each task and gaining new skills and understanding of teamwork. We all should further be able to effectively collaborate and interact with each other throughout the design process so the desired end results are achieved, will all members submitting work that they feel fits each brief.

Supporting Resources: Facebook will play a large role throughout this unit in assisting each member to collaborate with the team. This is an effective way to communicate as it enables each team member to work on their own time while still being able to effectively collaborate with the team. Roger and Michelle also have a large role throughout this unit as they provide support and advice to the team enabling the best results to be achieved. Adobe software will also have a role in creating each assignment, and word documents will be able to provide a grounds of information that can be edited between the team.

Reporting Plan: The team should be communicating through facebook each week, as they each voice their opinions and communicate about their progress throughout this unit. The content of these discussions should enable further progress for each member of the team.  Each member will be able to use facebook to post pictures,links,discussions, files, posts, use polls, create meeting times and manage time.

Deliverables: The Key indicators that measure the intended success of this unit include each submission from team members fitting the intended briefs, creative skills being enhanced and effective collaboration and communication between team members. The team will deliver a series of works which reflect the topic of social issues, with each member submitting five artworks each. Each member of the team will be assessed on their submissions each week, and should be able to create a design solution for social issues, while collaborating with the team and gaining knowledge of this unit.  Effective communication involves involvement from each team member throughout this unit via faceboook.

Team Letterpress

All members will;

work to the best of their ability doing their fair share of work to produce and submitting quality work on the correct platforms.

respect other team members opinion/views/voices/person and take into consideration the constructive feedback. Only constructive feedback is to be given, nothing derogatory.

time and dedication should be considered and taken for each of the five tumblr post created, taking into consideration ones experience and capability levels.

attend all agreed team meetings and specified deadlines, unless notice is given

Keep in touch with one another through the online Facebook group on a regular basis.