MHR 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mental Model, Nominal Group Technique, Problem Solving
2 Apr 2017
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Lecture 3: chapter 8 - team dynamics (same from mhr 405) Team work by team canada at 2014 sochi olympics. Team canada selected their team based on the new defense-first strategy. Even though they had to leave out 3 notable members of the 2010 gold winning team, they ended up winning gold again. Mutually accountable for achieving common goals influence each other. How long that type of team usually exists. Degree of skill/knowledge diversity in the team. Degree that decision-making responsibility is distributed throughout the team or centralized. Groups that exist primarily for the benefit of their members. Social identity -- we define ourselves by group memberships. Process losses resources needed for team maintenance. Social loafing members potentially exert less effort in teams than alone. Slackers, people who do not contribute like their suppose to. Brooks" law adding more people to a late software project only makes it later. Cohesion = how well you trust your team.
