1. FORM A MISSION STATEMENT
Brainstorm ideas for your mission statement.
Write your team’s Mission Statement.
2. DEFINE THE SCOPE OF THE PROJECT (SCOPE STATEMENT)
The Mission Statement expresses what your team would ideally like to
accomplish. The Scope Statement defines the boundaries. In the succeeding
pages you will define the boundaries of your project and create a plan
to accomplish the project. The boundaries may include the environmental
constraints, cultural constraints, time constraints, technological constraints,
structural constraints, effective leadership and communication, and
anything else that might impact the project.
Scope planning should include experiment description, constraints,
assumptions you’ve made, the tools you will use to accomplish the
tasks, the culture, technology, individual competencies, and any other
factors impacting upon the project. The project scope statement will
also include justification, product description, anticipated project
deliverables, and success criteria for the project. Justification for
the project comes from your mission statement, but defines the problem
you are being asked to solve more clearly. The product description is
the statement of work to be done or the overall objective or solution.
The project deliverables are a summary of the sub-products or goals.
The project success criteria are specific accomplishments that allow
you to determine how effective you are: “How will we know when
we are done?” These can include both criteria for satisfying the
team and criteria for satisfying the advisors.
The scope must also define your technical approach for reaching your
stated objectives.
- 1. State how pertinent data will be obtained.
- 2. State the sequence of experiments that you will carry out.
- 3. Justify how your experiments will provide answers that satisfy
your objectives.
- 4. What equipment materials and procedures you will use?
- 5. How will you analyze data?
- 6. Justify in your scope statement why you feel your analysis and
method is feasible.
- 7. Are there uncertainties?
- 8. List decisions that need to be made (in chronological order)
and how they are to be made.
OBJECTIVE OF PROJECT
In order to create an appropriate scope statement break down your Mission
Statement. Divide the team objective into two primary specific objectives:
the team process objective and the task process objective.
Team Process Objectives:
Task Process Objectives:
- 1. What are the objectives?
- 2. You must justify these objectives in detail here.
- 3. Why does your research need to be done?
- 4. What previous relevant experimental and theoretical work has
been done in this area?
- 5. What results can be expected from your work?
3. CREATE A SCOPE STATEMENT FOR YOUR NEW PROJECT
CREATE A WORK BREAKDOWN (STRUCTURAL ASSESSMENT)
List what you know about each of these categories and use the chart
to break your goals down into tasks for each project:
Experiment:
Written Assignment:
Oral Presentation:
Project Management
Data
Conclusions
Planning
Training materials
Written Paper
Meetings
Equipment needed
Oral Presentation
Administration
Technical information
Work Breakdown Structure: Decomposing the Project
Identify the major elements of the project. Start with the goals of
each team member and the goals of the project. Complete the following
Goal-Setting Exercise and list your personal goals. (assignment due
in Progress Report #1)
1. Each team member should write down three short-term goals. These
are goals that you should be able to accomplish or begin to accomplish
during the project. Before you begin formulating your three short-term
personal goals, give yourself a reality check.
a. Do you take the risk of telling people exactly how you behave or
do you tell people how you wish you could behave?
b. Are there skills, abilities, and knowledge you possess that can
be developed further by being honest about how you act in collaborative
situations?
c. What are your competencies?
d. What competencies do you need to develop further?
e. Do you have the ability to abandon emotional responses (like blaming
people) when the unexpected happens and help your team members clarify
what inside or outside forces contributed to the frustrations or unexpected
circumstances in your project?
Name of Team Member
Goal #1___________________________________
Goal #2 __________________________________
Goal #3___________________________________
(Submit this portion with your First Progress Report)
2. Present your three goals to the team. Discuss whether or not you
think you can accomplish the goals within the context of the team task.
Will you have to make changes in your life to make the personal goals
work within the context of the team's goals? When a team members succeeds
in accomplishing a personal goal it motivates team members to accomplish
the team goals.3. Remember to incorporate these goals into your action
plan. (There are still a few more steps until they actually start writing
their action plans.)
Now brainstorm to formulate the long term and short term goals for
the team and list them here: (This section was moved forward to improve
flow.)
Long Term Team Goals
Goal #1___________________________________
Goal #2 __________________________________
Goal #3___________________________________
Goal#4___________________________________
Goal #5 __________________________________
Goal #6 __________________________________
Goal #7 __________________________________
Goal #8 ___________________________________
Goal #9 ____________________________________
Short Term Team Goals
Goal #1___________________________________
Goal #2 __________________________________
Goal #3___________________________________
Goal #4___________________________________
Goal #5 __________________________________
Goal #6 __________________________________
Goal #7 __________________________________
Goal #8 ___________________________________
Goal #9 ____________________________________
Your goals should also include gaining or developing competencies.
List the Competencies from the Team Questionnaire that you and your
team members wish to develop during the task process:
Team Member Name
1.
2.
3.
Your Competencies:
1.
2.
3.
Remember to incorporate working on these Competencies into
your action plan.
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