1) What emerged as the group’s strengths?
First, mental stability was crucial especially in the group’s pursuit of the correct decision as well as the management and development of the processes accompanying it. It was important for our group members to remain updated with the latest developments to be able to stay aware and knowledgeable in all issues. Secondly, our group’s impressive performance and credibility was really an important strength. The production of the best project outputs of our group came as a result of well-funded research management and development activities. The strong performance of our project outputs could also be linked to the effective strategic planning and human resource mobilization within our group. Lastly, the group’s planning and strategy formation capabilities created the need for our group to become aggressive in order for our project to be successful.
2. What were the soft spots?
First was the group’s inconsistent decision-making ability. Upon arriving at the incorrect decision or choice, our group sometimes lacked confidence in one another’s ability to make critical decisions or choices especially when the integrity of the group was on the line. Second was the group’s pessimistic mindset of issues. Perhaps because of the group’s exposure to various puzzling issues, our group along the process was able to develop a pessimistic mindset regarding some issues surrounding the success of our project.
3) What do you conclude about the key success factors for a project group?
Planning was a necessary function within the group. In the other groups this process was often very difficult because of the fast rate of change and the occurrences of unplanned events. Our group used several methodologies depending on specific circumstances. Nevertheless, the objectives of the group for this project did not change: efficiency and effectiveness.
Planning was implemented by this group in order for our activities and resources to be coordinated over time. This enabled our group to achieve our goals with minimal resource utilization. Planning also enabled the group to monitor the progress of our plans at regular intervals and maintain our control over activities. Planning within the group involved four elements: scheduling, labor planning, equipment planning, and cost planning. Scheduling involved the specification of the beginning, the length or the duration, and end of the planned activities. Labor planning involved allocating the necessary personnel and delegation of responsibilities and resources. Equipment planning involved identifying the types and needs in terms of equipments. Cost planning involved determining the costs and the possibility of their occurrence.
4) What were your particular contributions to the group dynamics and the success of the project?
We had a total of six (6) members in our group that wrote this MCO group project. Actually each one of our group member was responsible for different topics, then we gathered it all together. One person was responsible for the wrap up of the draft. Others just continuously added additional information / revisions. It was quite flexible, as everyone had a full time job.
My particular contributions were initiating the start of the project, creating a frame for everyone, e.g. writing first in order to give others an idea to continue to write for it.
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