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Unread 12-02-2004, 11:25
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Re: What happens when your team runs out of motivation?

It sounds like your team is starting to suffer through burnout. If anything, I'd say you're meeting too much. Yes, you're behind but meeting too often can cause you to fall even further behind. It's much better to have fewer, more productive meetings than having a lot of seldom productive meetings. Don't meet just because you can.

As for what you can do, the first key thing is to come up with a schedule. Figure out what you still need to get done and break it down to subtasks. Then assign each subtask to a time you're meeting. This will give you an idea of how often you need to meet to finish the robot and will make sure everyone knows exactly what point in the build process you are in. I think you'll find it a lot easier to get people to come in when they know exactly what needs to be done that day. You can also rearrange the schedule in progress whether to add or remove days but always have a specific reason for it (i.e. we planned to get X done today, but we didn't, so we need to meet tomorrow to finish it).

Matt