I'm not sure what to write this week as part of my evaluative post. I'm feeling a little downhearted as activities between the group, in my opinion, feel on the verge of breakdown. There has been no communication between the group since Thursday (apart from a short conversation I had with Gary today.) Communication has always been a shortfall in our group, I feel that things that should be communicated to the group as a whole, aren't being and therefore we're missing out on tasks we could be or should be doing.
Our team feels so disorganised, there's no real team delegation - aside from a few obvious tasks. Work flow documents aren't 'flowing' as they should be - no pun intended. Items that should have been completed by now haven't and these are going to impact on our client work if they're not sorted out properly.
Speaking of clients, our team had its first client meeting on Thursday. As I wasn't there, I can't say too much on how the meeting went, but initial thoughts look good. Which brings me back to the last point I made, now we have had our first client meeting and are in the process of bringing together a brief. We really need to crack on with the overdue items, get a proper work flow document process in place and stop tripping up over the little things that are holding the team back. I don't want to sound so negative, but this is a long assignment, if things aren't nipped in the bud now they'll have a ripple effect lasting until hand in.
Sorry to sound so miserable.
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Suzanne Hullah, Developer
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I’m concerned.
I believe I made myself clear in Thursday’s meeting: I expected a considerable improvement in the groups performance.
I appreciate that this post is only a quarter of Pi Creative’s opinion; but some of the sentiments expressed in it correlate to my experience of the group.
Communication is not reliable.
I still don’t have access to any of your documents, therefore I still haven’t seen a meeting schedule; the minutes of Thursday’s meeting; the client agreement [the request for which I asked to be minuted]; and retrospectively, many other documents.
They haven’t even been emailed to me.
I’ve no idea if Mike Jaques has been contacted.
The groups attitude to Amanda’s photography website has been disappointing; even arrogant.
I don’t like waving the big stick, but you’re leaving me no other choice. I have made several reasonable requests of the group, and few have been carried out. Do I consider this a breach of Academic Progress [you simply don’t have the ability] or Misconduct [you’re deliberately ignoring my requests]?
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