Team Structure

[safiq10]

Hello! Our team is thinking about changing our team structure and before we changed it we wanted to see what you have to say about either our current structure or to what we are thinking of moving too.

Now our current structure is that we have 3 separate groups within our team that work on their respective task throughout the year.

1. Design
2. Business
3. Engineering & Programming

Now Design main purpose is to design cool shirts and accessories that our team uses that year. Our Design team is made up of 3 female members.

Then our buisness team they are in charge of everything that isnt the robot. So chairmans, outreach, funding, and ECT. The Business team is made up of 10 members. Which 9 of 11 members are female.

Then Engineering and programming they build the robot (no CAD) and program the robot. Now their are 10 members in engineering, which all but one of the members is male.

Now the all the girlson the team approached me asking to be on engineering and programming. So we have no one left on design and we have 2 people left in buisness.

So our thought was what if we simplify it and remove the groups and have everyone in engineering except for a few certain one who will be working on chairmans and outreach.

Switching to this new system will allow us to have a CAD team of 7 and our programming team can grow from 2 to 5.

Then this upcoming year we will receive about 4 hours of class time a week for robotics. So our thought is that we can work on funding and chairmans in class and after school and finish most of chairmans and finish all t-shirt designs by kickoff. Then the team can switch over to engineering while the select group works on perfecting chairmans.

The only downside we see to this is that we need train all the members while they have responsibilities for business and we might struggle to meet our annual goal of 20k.

So what do you think should we switch into this new structure or should we continue to use what we have or should we try something completely new. Sorry for the long post and thanks in advance!