Team Meeting Notes 09
November 8-10 Team Meetings
Team Meeting Objectives
Make sure that things are on track during a very brief meeting.
Spend time working on your prototype (focus of the team meeting this week)
Most critical module review is November 14th and Technical review is November 21st. When planning, keep in mind that time will be needed for testing, debugging, redesigning, and rebuilding.
Good communication is critical. Regular status communications to the team and using the team slack site to manage tasks consistently can be very valuable.
Preparation Before Team Meeting 9
Please review the most critical module and technical review presentations.
Your task force should prepare a short, well organized, status report for the tasks that you have been working on.
Financial officers should prepare a budget status report for the team.
SIs should prepare an agenda that includes a review of project status and a schedule update. Focus on having an effective, brief meeting so that a significant portion of the team meeting time can be spent working.
What's due
Please bring your design notebook to the team meeting so that your team instructors can review it and your milestone reflection for the assembly review.
Please email your lab instructors and course instructors your identified MCM by end of your lab.
Team Meeting 9 Activities
SIs should start with an agenda and assigning a scribe.
Financial officers should give a short budget update to the team.
Briefly review the current status of the design with reports from different task forces. Review the updated project schedule.
It is recommended to take 10-15 minutes during the team meeting to show a sample tech review demonstration video (pick from the 2.009 gallery) and discuss. It can help in thinking ahead to the review, and therefore reflect on the current state of the team's product and the testing and demoing goals for the review. It can also help the team prep for the 5-minute demonstration video that will be recorded during the review (for use in the online review forms).
Divide tasks and assign responsibility for design issues that need to be addressed and start working.
Team instructors may want to meet with individual task forces to review progress and help with design issues.