CSI: Normal

1.     1.)  For the CSI Normal exercise, our team members played many roles in order to solve that task at hand.  Reflecting back on this activity, the different roles that I saw in action within the team were: contractor, contributor, coordinator, communicator, and calibrator.  I felt that I best played the contributor in this exercise, with analyzing the information provided, listen to what my other team members would bring up, and also bringing up a couple key points to be made in order to solve this exercise. 

2.     2.)  Probably one of the more important or helpful roles in this exercise was the contractor, or the person that organized and led the team and then contracted the final document with our findings.  All of the roles are very important, but without a contractor, we would have had a hard time finding a starting point and leading the team.  Also in regards to finding out about having different sheets; that was something that we didn’t even discover until after the activity, because we just assumed they were the same and trusted each other with the different pieces of information brought up to be true.  One role that would have helped in discovering this would have been the consul.  The consul would have helped the team discover the different pieces of information and then would have been able to look back and find the root of the issue that the sheets were in fact different and that we were no just losing our minds.

3.     3.)  I believe that our team is in the performing stage of development.  We are already in existence so we are past the forming stage.  Our team has also been through the storming stage of coming up with what our group should be about and discussing possible topics of exploration for the group, and also the norming stage of setting goals of what we want to accomplish and building trust within each other.  As for adjourning, we have not reached that stage yet, because we still have several more weeks of class in which our group is in existence, and also we still have not reached our goals and tasks that we had made in the norming stage, and have not reached the point of reflecting back on our work.  The performing stage is when we are currently working as a team and completing the tasks that we had stormed and normed about.

        Posted by Jordan Carlton