Group Work Reflection

For the most part, working in a group for this project was a success! We clearly outlined our objectives and the schedule of meetings at the first meeting. This provided the present team members with a great idea as to what was ahead of us. At the second meeting we outlined the homepage as a group. This allowed collective group input and discussion in terms of deciding which links were most important to include directly on the homepage. The group traveled to Anderson to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore for our third meeting to meet with Shelby for her final input. Immediately after this meeting, we divided up the proposal workload among team members.

I think that everything was communicated thoroughly. Group meeting times were e-mailed and confirmed by each group member. Despite these confirmations, we still had reoccurring team meeting absences by one group member. To avoid this miscommunication in the future, I will also make an effort to not only e-mail but send out a reminder phone call.

The most successful thing that our group has displayed was evenly distributing the workload keeping in mind each individuals educational background. For instance, Katie Bickers has had experience working with websites, therefore she was responsible for the Appendix section and homepage design.

Overall, I really enjoyed working with my team members. We felt very comfortable around each other which allowed us to complete our work more effectively. In the future, the only thing I would change is to also call group members to confirm meeting times so that the entire group is always present at meetings.