Course Name & Topic

Instructor: Project Team Contract Group Name:

Consensus: A place of common ground. A position or agreement that all members of a team can agree to and support (even though it may not be any persons ideal or preferred outcome.) Task: Come to consensus on how your team will work together. The most challenging issue for all project teams will be how you will negotiate the times and places/spaces when you will meet either online or face to face to get your work done. Everyone is busy. Everyone has multiple commitments and obligations. Each and every person on the team must decide what he or she will put aside or defer personal convenience to make room for the teams need to work together. Write your teams working agreement below: Based upon our experience working together, what will we do to improve our effectiveness as a team?

We agree to stay in touch with each other by:

Here is how we will make time to work together. The days and times we will meet outside of class are:

Here is how we will make time to work together ONLINE. The online tools we will use to collaborate are (highlight any/all that you agree to use): Canvas Discussion Tool Canvas Chat Tool Facebook Group Google Docs Wiggio Other (specify in detail)

Based upon our experience working together, when disagreements arise between two or

more people in the group here is how we will resolve those differences:

These are the talents/skills/abilities that each person in our team brings to the project. Include technical/computer skills such as software, video, digital imaging, music editing, etc.: Names (print) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Talents/Skills

Here are some of the roles that persons within successful groups adopt. Each of these roles can be shared among more than one person, or some of the roles can be adopted by one person. The key idea is that in every successful group at least one person is taking responsibility for each of these roles ALL OF THE TIME. Based upon experience working together, here are the roles each person will adopt: Role Logistics and Planning. This person takes care of the details: setting dates and agendas for meetings, making sure that everyone is thinking about the steps that need to be carried out to accomplish each part of the project. Task Master/Mistress. This person makes sure that meetings stay on track. This person brings people back to the task if the group is sidetracked. This person has the task requirements always in mind and always asks the question, are we meeting each element of the task completely? Person(s) who will be responsible

Morale Officer. This person is responsible for making sure that every person is engaged with the project, doing their agreed share of the work and feeling optimistic about the project. Initiator/Idea Person. This person(s) is responsible for coming up with ideas for how to do the project or solve the problems that arise as the project is brought to completion. Summarizer/Recorder. This person is responsible for keeping a written record of all group decisions. This person makes sure that each decision is connected to someone who will do something about it. This person makes sure that everyone always knows what they are expected to do.

My name below indicates that I have participated in the discussion that produced this agreement and that I support the commitments made within: