During the two months collaboration, team members like to use Google Hangouts for meeting, discussing, reviewing and enjoying. Because Hangouts integrates video face-to-face chat into Google’s productivity apps like Google Drive that could highly improve team collaboration, especially within a virtual team when we're not together. Through Google Slide and Screen Share, any member can can make last-minute changes to that important presentation, get live input on his or her analysis from remote team members, or just plan a party over coffee.
Moreover, we prefer planning schedule on Google Calendar, because it can always not only remind me what to do in the next couple of days but also make team members informed by each other’s schedule.
I believe my team coordinates across members with high efficiency, contributed by that we can keep members posted timely and accurately in order to eliminate confusion to minimal level. We usually communicate with morning team For example, through Google Doc, after revising part of the assignment, members will be informed and can review the latest version anytime. Before Google Drive, we sent email with attachments to others after revise, but after couple of times revisement, it was difficult for members find the latest one in tremendous emails.
However, those productive apps require knowledge about IT, taking a little long time for adaption.
Internally, we took days to prepare a proposal respectively before meeting, and the decision on what the virtual team do are made through brainstorm. For those regrading to specifications, like who is our customers and what functions the platform may provide, decisions are lead by members who is good at the area.
Externally, before meeting with morning team, we discussed to arrive at a accepted point. Then, one of our three will go to negotiate with the morning team, and take questions back to discuss with team. After two or three circle, the final decision might be fixed.
For the conflicts, firstly we discussed whether the virtual team focused on operating digital textbooks or on more categories. I convinced them by pointing out materials and figures to support the keyword of “NEW”, because the digital textbook market is the very niche market with inelastic and stable demand, as well as has not attract big digital book companies’ attention, like Amazon.com.
Secondly, the conflict was happened when defining the cooperation area with morning team. I compromised this time, and help to push the project going forward.
Finally, the conflict focused on how to present the virtual program. Aiming to surprise students and present it in a virtual way, I held the idea that present by Google Hangouts in a virtual way. However Vivian and Ivy were afraid that if there was any problems on facilities, we would suffer a big loss. To solve their concerns, I introduced couples of plan B, to handle all accident they guessed.
Based on the Cloud Technology, Google Hangouts and Google Drive helped my team’s work, to make us collaborate as smoothly as we worked in a physical office.
The team formed based on diversity of educational and professional background. The commitments we make to the team are at-stakeness, transparency and synergy.
We three committed equally to team’s decisions because we care deeply about the virtual project we worked and grade we would obtain finally. We promised we would devote individuals’ effort to improve team’s project.
Moreover, we all agreed that shared understanding is necessary within the team, and we promised to share suggestions with others and to open to others suggestions.
Furthermore, we preferred “better” ideas, and based on at-stakeness and transparency, we definitely could work out innovative alternatives to improve team’s project continually.
Generally, we have done all the three commitments in the couple months. In one aspect, aim to obtain a excellent grade, members would actively share their suggestions and do double-check if there were anything missed; in another aspect, without any monetary benefit, the conflicts could be solved more easily.
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