NT2799 NSA CAPSTONE COURSE
TEAM AGREEMENT & WORK PLAN

[COMPANY NAME]
[Date]

I. TEAM AGREEMENT

A. Individual Contribution

This document should be a guide for individual tasking for the current team assignment. Through your chosen collaboration platforms and tools, each group member must individually enable your instructor to determine your level of involvement and contribution to the final team product. Individual team members who do not document their level of team involvement and contribution to the final team product may have their individual grade reduced, at the discretion of the instructor. Each group must seek and acknowledge their instructor’s preference on this point.

B. Desirable team behaviors

Examples of desirable behaviors are punctuality, effective "listening," no harmful "group think," systematic documentation of important team communications and decisions, etc.

C. Submission of Final Document

Team members will post all individual contributions to the team assignment in the team study group conference. Team members may find it helpful to use email to improve timeliness for review of deliverables. Your team should ensure that the final assignment that has been reviewed by all team members before submission to the instructor. Each member must upload the final paper in the dropbox under the assignment tab.

D. Team Contact Information

|Member Names |Telephone Numbers |E-mail Contacts |Guidelines for contact (including |
| | | |preferred days, emergency information,|
| | | |etc.) |
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E. Summary of individual member strengths and weaknesses (self-assessed)

|Team Member Names |Individual areas of strength (e.g., good writer, editor, researcher, organizer, communicator, |
| |technology-adept, etc.) |
|Tamela Watts |Technology-adept, Organized, Hard worker, Team player, Communication Skills, Self-Motivated, |
| |Determined and Success Orientated |
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(Note: Honest self –assessment is important. You will want to use this information to help you distribute the work in a way that leverages your individual and team advantages.)

II. TEAM WORK PLAN

This section is to be used as a guide for individual tasking. Please note that you MUST shift roles for the second team assignment.

Team Individual Task Assignments & Timeline for Delivery

|Task |Lead |Due |
|Coordinate development and production of Team Agreement | | |
|Collect and organize team strengths and areas of | | |
|weakness for inclusion in Agreement | | |
|Manage team meetings scheduling, transcripts, etc. (The | | |
|person doing this task might be responsible for both the| | |
|task and relationship aspects of the team processes. We | | |
|suggest a sub-team with a primary and back-up member or | | |
|with a division of labor by task and relationship | | |
|focus.) | | |
|Prepare outline including completion and submission of | | |
|this work plan. (We recommend a two-member sub-group | | |
|with approval from the group.) | | |
|Write draft paper. | | |
|Revise outline as necessary. (We recommend a primary and| | |
|back-up writer.) | | |
|Review/ edit paper (We recommend two people for this | | |
|task.) | | |
|Write final paper and designate individual to ensure all| | |
|team members post copies in their assignment folders | | |
|with peer reviews. (We recommend a two-person sub-group | | |
|for this.) | | |
|Review/edit final paper. (We recommend a two-person | | |
|sub-group for this.) | | |

III.COMMITMENT

Each member must acknowledge having read and agreeing with the tasking and proposed due dates listed in the final posting of the Team Agreement/Work Plan. This is a binding agreement. Each team member that has provided contact information and been assigned tasks within this agreement are held to the respective tasks until the end of the quarter, unless a unanimous decision among the whole of the group authorizes a change to the agreement; at which time, the agreement will need to be re-submitted for instructor approval. Failure to adhere to your assigned tasks by the due date(s) will negatively impact your individual grades.

Please remember that each team member must submit a copy of the group exercises and projects to the appropriate assignment folder in the LMS along with your peer review form in order to receive full credit for your work. All issues pertaining to your projects, tasks, assignments, and deadlines should be directed to your project managers primarily. If project managers cannot find a solution, they will escalate the problem to the instructor. Any administrative issues (tardiness/absence, early departure from class, etc.) will be directed to the instructor. The finalized submission of this form to the instructor constitutes a binding agreement among all team members.