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The document outlines steps for forming a startup project, including scheduling meetings, creating a communication covenant, and developing a Gantt chart for assignments. It emphasizes the importance of teamwork, flexibility, and regular communication among team members. Additionally, it encourages social bonding through a team activity and documentation of the process in Google Docs.

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The document outlines steps for forming a startup project, including scheduling meetings, creating a communication covenant, and developing a Gantt chart for assignments. It emphasizes the importance of teamwork, flexibility, and regular communication among team members. Additionally, it encourages social bonding through a team activity and documentation of the process in Google Docs.

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 Find a meeting time immediately

▪ Make a joint weekly schedule of classes, work time


▪ If you work, be flexible
▪ Don’t say: “Can’t, I gotta work”

 Several times a week

 Create this document on Google Docs


▪ Share the doc with TA, Reader, and me (see
syllabus for our emails
 Consider that you are a startup
 What project do you want for your startup?
 It has to be
 Doable in 10 weeks
 Real
 Interesting enough for all team members

 Examples
 Create and deliver an event for a club
 Build a website for an existing organization or club
 Volunteer regularly for an organization and provide some
IT help
 Develop requirements and write a requirements doc for a
new SmartPhone app
 …
 (Be creative)
 A Communication Covenant is an agreement every member of a
team makes about communicating:
 · promising to communicate regularly (even when the news is
bad),
 · promising to answer your email how many times a day,
 · agreeing that you will be using Google Docs for file
management,
 · specifying when and where your meetings are (1-2 times a
week),
 · promising to notify teammates if you can’t make a meeting,
 · agreeing to reasonable punishments if a team mate is late or
misses without notifying everyone,
 · promising to volunteer to do things and to do them well and
on time.
 Communication covenant
 An agreement among yourselves about how you
will communicate
 I expect you all to give your all
▪ If you aren’t, I will know and bring you in to talk
 I expect you to rotate positions
▪ You needn’t put that into this document
 Read the examples
▪ Note good things.
 Make your Gantt chart with all your classes’
assignments
 PDF
 Readable, helpful
 Short 1-2 paragraphs about what you learned
from doing this

 Due beginning of class; bring in a hard copy


or have it on your computer
To help you bond and trust your teammates, we’re asking you to
do something social together
Have someone take a photo of you doing this.
Don’t fake it. Pictures of you with no food or game don’t count.
Put this photo in Google docs folder that your team is sharing
with us.
 Find a location in room

 GO! Take your stuff


 Record your individual names down, emails,
team name

 Send to all team members

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