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Originally Posted by qwertyuiop[]\
So what i gather from your schedule is that you work about eight hours a week but that you spread them out evenly. Team 369 meets also meets eight hours a week. We meet on
Mon: 6PM-8 Wed: 2:15PM-5:00 and Sat 9AM-12.
We seem to be on track with our robots even though we dont get all team members every meeting. Consolidating meeting time is more efficient because you spend less time setting up and cleaning up. Also when working for extended periods of time you get into "the zone" and work more efficiently. It almost takes half an hour to get the meeting started. Maybe your team is more orderly and can get down to work faster but if not this is probably a cause for not being on track. Also my team, in the week before the competition, goes into "crunch mode" where we meet every day from 2-5:30 ish. I hope that this insight is of use to you.
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These are some of the things I've been thinking about, with FRC we always had long hours M-F 3PM-7PM and then Sa 9AM-3PM, and with FTC now the consensus was smaller bot, less work hours and this is clearly wrong. Also our team breaks down like this
- 5 solid people collaborating on design, build, and programming
- 2 people for fundraising
- 3 solid people who have been building a practice field
- 5 people who come and go and when they are there they're less than productive
In addition out of these people only three, including me, have ever been associated with FIRST so everything is pretty new to everyone. Another problem is that we have one teacher with the key to the cabinet with all of our stuff and today, as well as other days, he was not in school so programming was all that could be done. In the coming weeks we're hoping to increase work hours to 2PM-6PM also we should be working all of veterans day so hopefully we'll be getting more done soon.