Teamwork

For the second year of this course we will be required to work as part of a team to meet clients, plan, design, and build a website. This is something I will look forward to as I work as part of a team in my part time job. My role in this job is to keep staff motivated, run an area of people and know what everyone is doing all the time. Some of the other roles I take part in are training staff members of all levels; I also have to take charge of product quality.

On the other hand I have worked in some teams that didn’t work that well at all. This seemed to be because there was no set task for each person and everyone was doing the same thing. Some of the work that was prepared was given to the presenter without him having time to read through and prepare. This was quite frustrating as the presentation could have gone a lot better if the time was planned a lot better then it was. Another way we could off improved this could have been to give each member of the group a role such as co-ordinator, team worker, time planner, and implementer.

After looking on the internet at www.belbin.com I have found out that I could fit into a series of roles within the group. From my work side of view I use some of the skills of a co-ordinator as I can delegate jobs, overview and manage the project, and Keep a close eye on goals. On the other hand I am a good team worker as I co-operate, listen and enjoy building the product.

So of the other skills I would look for in people who join my team are:

Someone who his quite creative in Photoshop
Someone who thrives on pressure and would not crack at the last minute
Someone to plan and design the project
A team that stays set to the task at hand
A team that encouragers teamwork
I believe if I got a team that showed these qualities there should be nothing that this team shouldn’t be able to achieve. This is something that I am looking forward to as in the actual business its all about teamwork.

Times Running Out

This week had its few problems mixed with mini timed assignments. At the start of the week I got an error on my site when I uploaded the site to the internet. For some reason the host has made my site forbidden. I tried to resolve this problem by sending the host an e-mail but I am still waiting for a reply from the host.

On Wednesday the whole group went down to London to visit the Tate museum. When we got to the Tate museum we found out that all the museums across the country were on strike. This really annoyed me as I had gone all the way to London, to go to this one museum. Later in the day we found the National Gallery and looked at some of the artwork in there.
The next day was the start of the timed assignment for the fifth assignment the assignment seemed to be fun and enjoyable in tell I realised that I needed to leave my self time to check through my work to make sure the work matched the spec. I found this quite annoying, as I had no input on the design. It gradually got better as I started to get a lot more input into the designs and I was designing for a purpose as well as developing my designer skills. I really enjoyed doing these assignments and will look forward to doing them in the future.