Team Working Agreement Template
Term R: Autumn 2020)
Creation 11/12/2020
1) Group Identification
Lab section # – 6859
Table # – R
Instructor – Prof Thomas
Team Name (Optional) –
Team member info:
| NAME: | EMAIL: | PHONE: | OTHER: |
| Taylor Jilot | Jilot.1@osu.edu | 2629518699 | |
| Matt Corso | Corso.36@osu.edu | 6303353632 | |
| Aakanksha Desai | Desai.355@osu.edu | 6144298263 | |
| Stephanie Anokye | Anokye.6@osu.edu | 6149660013 | |
2) Primary Means of Communication and Expectations
State your team’s agreed upon various means of communication and expectations for response.
(Example: All members will be expected to read emails from anyone in the group on a daily basis and respond in less than 12 hours.)
Group Chat on IMessage
3) Scheduling of Meetings (Schedule at least one meeting as part of constructing your team agreement.)
Agreed upon means of scheduling meetings.
(Example: Team will agree, at the end of each class, to set any meetings times and agenda needed before the next class and beyond if possible. Team members will take turns to send out a reminder of the meeting with an agenda within eight hours after the class.)
Example Agenda Format
Team Name: R
Meeting Schedule: After each lab for a zoom call, on certain weekends as well.
| Date: Varies | Time: Varies | Location: Zoom Call |
Participating members (If not all.): All of them participated
Agenda: We made groups of 2 and had partners for that, so we all had different schedule and worked according to everyone’s time
4) General Responsibilities for All Team Members
This element of the team working agreement is the list of rules/agreements or the contract that all members agrees to live by.
Example Statements:
- Stay on task during lab.
- Divide the work fairly and be sure that everyone participates equally.
- Complete assigned tasks on time.
- Be on time to all meetings, and notify other team members ahead of time in case of absence from a meeting.
- Discuss any problems as they arise.
- Ensure that all team members have a copy of the finished report.
- Ensure that all team members understand all of the concepts and information presented in the report.
- See also Figure 4.05 of reading assignment in Lieu and Sorby The Fundamentals of Visualization, Modeling, and Graphics for Engineering Design, Chapter 4.
5) Specific Team Member Responsibilities/Deadlines (If applicable)
This section may be used to record specific tasks or responsibilities particular team members have assumed.
Example Statement:
- Team member Brutus will take responsibility to make sure all oral communications are clear and respectful
- Team member J. Zen will be responsible for maintaining a team blog.
Taylor and Matt are working on game: Roulette
Aakanksha and Stephanie are working on game: Over/Under 7
All Team members will work on more games depending on time and quality of the previously stated games.
6) Conflict Resolution
Each team should have a pre-agreed approach to addressing issues that may arise.
Example statement: When there are problems within our group pertaining to the general responsibilities or specific responsibilities, the following steps will be taken in this order until a resolution is found.
- Discuss problems within the group to come to a working solution, trying to make sure all members have opportunity to participate in the discussion.
- Hold a team discussion of the problem with a GTA or Professor to find a solution.
- If 1 and 2 fail, ask a GTA or Professor to make a decision (arbitrate).
7) Expectations of Faculty and GTA’s
Suggested Statement:
If a team member fails to live up to this agreement, the situation may be reported to the staff, but the team will still be responsible for submitting a completed assignment. Staff will be available to meet with teams to resolve issues.