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Originally Posted by ChrisMcK2186

Hey all,

My team right now is trying to get all the kinks hammered out with our leadership setup and rules. We are a rookie team that found out we are a team in December, so we didn't have time to get a very structered rules set.

My question is this, do the teams out there have a written down set of rules or is it more implied guidlines? If you do have rules, what is the discipline for those who break them? If you do not have rules, how do you maintian order?

Thanks for your help with this,
Chris

Chris,

Same thing happened to our team, we barley had enough time to go over the details of what is FIRST and how everything works and what we should do.
Even after the competition, when we had a major reduce in participation of students, we're not entirly sure about everything of what we should do next year(but we're working on it).

We didn't have rules in this year's season and we tried to come up with some "schedule" of work. It might have worked for the first weeks, but in the middle it started to prove wrong and lots of student participation was missing. Allot of days when we needed one preson from a sub team to assist another, he wasn't there because he left before for he was told he had nothing to do(who told him?) and the next time he would appear would be only a few more days.
It was very messy and there were people responsible for activity and sometimes it was because they didn't know what to do since we haven't had a lot of time to learn our roles and didn't have time in the building process to go over the rules.

I think the only way to maintain order without rules is to find those who want to be a big part of this project and try to set dates for them to participate.
In my opinion. The whole team should be available almost all day. Of course, it's sometimes imposible, but I think that there should be maximum participation for a successful building process.

I've been nailed in the last seconed the position of the team leader and I've spoken before with my team and I asked them what THEY think are the team goals, and they told me that they have some ideas but it's my job to ditermine and apply them to the rest of the team.

I've had my own problems trying to lead the programming sub-team, but it came out more or less fine and I'm afraid I won't be able to do better as a leader of the whole team.

While reading other teams handbooks, I find very interesting stuff that I would like to share with my team.

Chris, if you figure out something interesting about team mangement I'd like to know about it too, so I'm hoping we can keep in touch about these stuff.

I have one question from all this and it is how do I make people participate?