Work done towards Project Part C (Wk 11)

In this week's contact I took on the role of delegating the remaining tasks of Part C to the team to make sure everything gets done on time. Below an image of the planning document can be seen for reference. The document is formatted to show the key questions needing to be answered in the final report (and website/tradeshow) followed by a summarised description of how we can answer them.

Looking back at the contact, I think I made suitable choices in delegating the tasks to each team member. It's often hard to keep everyone happy and get them doing a part of the project that they want, however after spending a semester with my team I feel like I gave everyone a task suits their skills and that they would enjoy. For example Ben was allocated the job of reading through the code and adding comments as I have learnt that he enjoys making and polishing programs while Qi is in charge of the tradeshow as he is good at compiling work into a presentation. With this work allocation I believe that we will be able to achieve what we have set out to create and will be able to get everything done before the final deadline.

 I feel like working with this specific team this semester has helped me to improve my teamwork and team management abilities. Learning about what each team member enjoys and what each team member is good at heavily simplifies the work allocation process. This semester the allocation has allowed for each project part to be completed by someone who actually wants to complete that part and resulted in the work being completed to a good standard.

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