Working At Ibm As A Software Engineer

During my Master Courses at the University of Maryland University College each and every subject, we had to complete a group project and submit it within the certain time frame. It was a very challenging task as people were in my group was in different time zones and everybody was doing a job and has a household responsibility. Most of the time, I was leading my team, as I like to work in advance to complete the project before the deadline. I was preparing a meeting agenda for my project management course. We have completed weigh waste water project for blueberry farm to grow blueberry in organic way and at the same time providing nutrient and saving the

Working in a group to achieve a high quality group project can be one of people’s most difficult school experiences. Working in a group is tough because there is often someone who does not pull their own weight. “There are five stages to group development, adjourning, forming, storming, performing, and norming” (John & Wiley pg 166). Christine’s group from the Case Study the Forgotten Group Member is in between the Storming and Norming Stages. The Storming Stage “is dealing with tensions and defining group tasks,” while the Norming Stage is dealing with high emotionality and tension among the group members” (John & Wiley pg. 166). Christine and her group could have had better

As part of my Business Innovation Development Project Unit, I had the opportunity to put myself into group with my friends or people I believed I could work well with. In the first stages of our group we all tried to get to know each other more through analysing personality and learning types’ test that we previously undertook. I realise we were going through the normal stages of the team formation in particular forming and norming (Tuckman, 1965). In my assignment group we had all Belbin team roles which helped us perform well throughout our project and also helped us to identify other team members’ behavioural strengths and weaknesses. During the initial stages of the group getting together I believed it was

Another team experience came during my first year of undergraduate studies. In this experience, I had the opportunity to work for Texas Tech under one of my professors. The task that I was assigned with was to help with the transition of one online class system to another. Overall, there was a lot of work that had to be done in order to meet the specified deadlines. Personally, I was put in charge of creating two classes in the new format of Blackboard that the university was planning to switch to. With all of the work that had to be done for each class, the professor made specific students in charge of certain classes and then gave each person in charge a team of other students to help the leader with the class. As a team leader, I was responsible for delegating certain objectives out to the rest of the team, while also performing my own tasks. Each task had a concrete deadline to meet and it was crucial that I meet all set deadlines if I expected the rest of my team to meet their deadlines. This helped to hold everyone accountable because if one member of the team slacked, then it gave a bad look to the team as a whole. Furthermore, we had a peer review system put in place

Whenever we form a group or team at my job one of the first things we do is assign and define roles and responsibilities. Motivation and satisfaction of team members can be increased when they are assigned roles congruent with individual strengths and abilities (Fischer, n.d.). This task could help eliminate your issues concerning role conflict. When a group has an assigned leader it can function without the continual question of who is in charge. Additionally, assigned roles can help with your groups’ competition of what individual or job is most important; everyone can recognize the uniqueness of each individual’s

This decision to start early on the project saved us from all the hassle we might have encountered by the end of the project. It allowed us for the time to think each and every part through and then write a good professional report. Each group member was assigned different parts of the project, which helped a lot in finishing the project well before the deadline. This saved us a lot of time for editing and revising our final report. Each time a group member was stuck on something the partner would try to help him out if the partner did not know how to they would go to the professor and seek her guidance. To make sure the whole team was on the same page, we had weekly discussion meetings. In the discussion meetings, each group member talked about the progress and the limitations on their part of the project. This idea proved to be quite healthy as now each group member knew what was going on in the project.

My group consisted of four other members-Christy, Daniel, Brian, and Allison. When we were first introduced to the idea of a small group project we knew that our presentation had to entertain the audience, and at the same time inform them. At that point, we were functioning as individuals. Each of us tossed out a ton of ideas and some were shot down right away. That took about 5minutes. Then Daniel mentioned that we can do a parody of the television show Change of Hearts, and it stuck to us like glue. Gradually we began to feed into his revelation, and started to add our personal touches. Each of us became elaborators. For about 15 minutes we took the idea and expanded it to see where it could lead

In this group project, I had a major role in ensuring that it came together in a unified way. Generally, I usually take a leadership role in group projects so I was the central person coordinating group meetings and ensuring sufficient communication. To begin the project, we divided up the work by assigning people to work on the case study, find literature, summarize the textbook, and talk to key informants. My assigned part was to summarize the textbook, which also ended up lending itself to finding some additional sources to build on what the textbook was lacking. In regard to the group literature and informant summary, I ended up writing most

This was particularly important since our group project was completely unstructured in the beginning with each of Healthier Initiative groups being unsure of where exactly we would fit in. As such, we invested a significant amount of time in figuring out each of our roles in establishing the project and learned to rely on each other’s specific skill sets to formulate our different projects. Further, we had frequent check-ins with feedback to ensure that we were meeting targets that we had set for ourselves. The cycle of feedback extended to our projects which were reworked multiple times to ensure that we were best addressing the needs of the community. This cycle though sometimes tedious helped to strengthen the team dynamic by encouraging individual growth whilst allowing for buy-in from all members involved in the

We began to focus on the task at hand, and actually formed a buddy system in which we would verve up who ever needed to get through the projects or team meetings for the day. Our director had two people that she seem to truly like within the group and they could have distributed the “me” attitudes, but instead they were always ready to come to the aid in the group. “My brother’s keeper”, was definitely a motto for this group. The group focus on the positive aspects. We had a leader that gave us structure and direction. As the chapter brought out, the group “did appreciate a bold, charismatic leader at times.” In addition, that fact that she no qualms about, making, “important decision quickly” which many times enable us stand out within the organization and as a

Tuckman proposes that groups develop via five stages; forming, storming, norming, performing and finally adjourning (Archee, Gurney, & Mohan, 2013a). The first stage, known as forming, involves clarifying the task and purpose of the group, and identifying boundaries of both the task and interpersonal behaviour (Archee et al., 2013a). For the presentation task we were randomly allocated into groups. This worried me greatly as I have struggled in the past with group members who do not contribute equally or see the task as important as other group members. To avoid this problem, the group collectively determined and agreed upon a number of ground rules. For example, we decided that all group members were expected to contribute equally to the presentation, all group members were expected to attend and contribute at all group meetings, and all group members would adhere to agreed upon deadlines. Having failed to do this in previous group assignments, this clarification stage

Working in a group can be very difficult at times. Different people with different views may not always agree which one another. Throughout the various task I played the communicator. I made sure everyone was on track on what we wanted to do. I also made sure people was okay and happy in the role they was playing in the group. My group worked together in collecting ideas from one another and making it into one.

Being involved in a group project was a challenge for me, due to the fact that we had some communication problems between our group members in the beginning. First of all, we started with a brainstorming, analysing the opportunities of companies around Hendon Central. More than this, we agreed on the same firm and started our work. Within a teamwork, there are some challenges that occur such as remaining focused on a direction, splitting equally the work and choosing a good leader. Bearing all this in mind, I might say that we did our best during the presentation and we coped with the minor communication issues. From this experience, I realized that I am a good leader and I can manage efficiently a project.

Prior to their cultural change that took place in the early 1990’s, many would have said that IBM was on a fatal downhill slide. At this point they were beginning to become obsolete. IBM at one point was among the leaders within the world for hardware/software development and information technology services, but all divisions within the organization were run independently from one another. They were not a unified enterprise. To solidify this even further, “rather than working together as a team, divisions competed against each other both internally and in the field” (DiCarlo, L., 2002).

From the beginning issues with non-productive group members was prominent, something that I did not anticipate but needed to deal with, and was dealt with in a professional manner. The way that this was dealt with was by keeping the uncooperative group members informed of updates while performing the tasks that they were allocated which enabled the project to stay on track.