sub-team tension???

[KenWittlief]

Originally Posted by phrontist

I am a one man electrical/programming team. I fight with myself all the time, and I'm constantly angry at myself for not having the systems in place I need to test my code.

The problem here is obvious: lack of communication!

The most successful people you see in a situation like yours are the ones who are constantly talking to themselves :^)

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

The communication between our sub-teams has been good this year because of one thing: a huge, detailed master plan sheet that is available to everybody from every sub-team. I can look at it and see what every other team is doing, and as a scout, I find that very useful.

For those of you who are bothered by "softer" sub-teams, you have even more reason to adapt a master schedule. Chairman's award people who want quotes, or awards people who want info, do not like bothering you when you're busy. At least as a Chairman's person I don't like to. Seeing what every sub-team is doing makes it easier to catch them during a downtime, or to check on them and ask when they'll be available after a task.

[Josh Murphy]

our communication is realitive good but sometimes there are more important things that have to be done at a certain time and it has to be understanding and wait until the right time. I am helping our video team right now because i am the one who did most of it last year and the new team is all rookies so i am helping them do the video for the hall of fame. we have to fight our way into certain rooms in order to get it done and we have a tight schedule and everyone is wanting it done, but a couple of weeks ago we were going to start filming and the pit crew/ build team said we are going in that room and that was at 12:00 and they did not go in there until 3:00 so we could of had at least a 3 hour lead but it is all a communication time and timing so it is understandable.

[114gopher]

There will always be some sort of tension, one group wants this done, one group wants this, and just not enough people/resources to get it done. I cannot stress the importance of communication in order to help alleviate (not solve, for this problem will always exist) this issue. We did have one issue this year where one of our groups flat out refused to do something for one of the other groups (change frame design a bit), which caused quite a bit of stress. We managed to figure out a way to work around it, but sometimes you need a central authority (Capitan/mentor/whoever) to have a talk with the parties involved, and help them to figure it out. All too often it is something silly like, "I didn't know that was/wasn't possible."
Don't stress though, it happens to everyone.

[StephLee]

Oh, definately some tension this year. Our programmers wanted to try castors this year, and our build team was dead against it...eventually, we agreed to try them, and now we're testing them. We'll make a decision soon, hopefully; but more importantly, since we tried them everyone should be happy.