Assignment

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

INFT6304 – Project Planning and Management

Trimester 2, 2014

Group Assignment 1

Due Midnight (Australian Eastern Standard Time) Sunday 29 June 2014 Worth 20%

Introduction

You have been placed into a group consisting of 4-5 students. Make sure that you contact your fellow group members and introduce yourself – you could use the Blackboard “Group Page” tools if you wish or some other social networking. This assignment is to be done cooperatively by your group and submitted as a single file to TurnItIn via Blackboard. You will be awarded a team mark for this assignment which will be moderated by the peer review SPARK mark to provide your individual mark for the assignment. This assignment will be awarded a mark out of 60 which will be scaled to a mark out of 20.

Part 1

The intention of the first part of this assignment is to get you communicating and to help you understand the strengths and weaknesses of your group as a whole. Question 1 (10 marks) In your team you should conduct an assessment of the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. What are your own individual skills? What do you each want to get out of this course? What are the complementary skills in your team? Are the aspirations for the course similar or different for each member (explain how they are similar and/or different?) 5. How are you going to work effectively as a team – explain any mechanisms or team standards that will you employ to ensure the team works effectively? Details: Teams should use the spreadsheet in the Assignment 01 folder to identify their members, contact details, how they will disseminate information and track documents. In addition the skills of each member should be clearly identified. A separate document should provide a brief report identifying the aspirations of each member in terms of outcomes from the course and discuss how these aspirations and skills are complementary or mismatched to...