During one of the last weeks I want to talk about what I learned throughout this senior design experience. I learned that it is very important to have good communication within the team. If you do not have good communication the amount of work can pile up as well as being focused on what you are good at is also important. Giving out ideas can decrease the amount of time it takes to implement something as well. This also goes a little bit into design. Talking through how you will implement something can create good ideas that will save time as well as making it known how you will implement something so somebody else on the team can make changes to it. Another thing that is very important is being accountable for your work. If one team member doesn’t implement something in the time he is supposed to, it could stall the other team members from completing their own tasks. Not only that but it could make things harder on other team members that are trying to get the project done. I think communication could solve this issue as constantly reminding them to finish their work is partly the whole team’s responsibility. There should be good motivation to do the work from everyone, but the team should help each other out as best as they can, as it is not only one person’s work, but everyone’s as a whole. I learned that relying on other people to do work that needs to be done before some of your tasks is a difficult thing to deal with. That’s why I think it is important to always have things in the backlog that you can do as well as lending a helping hand to be able to accomplish each task. Overall, It was a great learning experience that I will take once I join other teams in the future.
