Team Contract

Project Name: The Lyric Revitalization

Date: 2/8/17

Project Team Members’ Names and Sign-off:

Code of Conduct: As a project team, we will:

• Communication will be open amongst team members

• Communication is pertinent to the success of a group. By letting everyone express their unfettered and unfiltered ideas allows for greater creativity and openness of a group. Also it is important to speak openly about our problems and feel enabled to ask other members of the group for help

• Collaboration is about sharing our skills, talents, and competencies for the success of the group and project

• Collaboration allows everyone in the group to learn and improve together by sharing our ideas and skills with each other

• Absenteeism and tardiness should be notified to all of the members of the group prior to group meeting or in-class team days

• Everyone should attend team assignment in-class days along with group meetings on time. If someone is going to unavailable or late to class or group meetings, he or she should notify every member in the group

• Each member should know his or her job duties and responsibilities

• Everyone should know their roles or duties of the group. Everyone should complete his or her work thoroughly and on time. All members should be knowledgeable of important deadlines and report to other members of their progress or completion of said deadline

• There must be a mutual respect amongst all team members

• We must respect each other’s viewpoints and ideas, allow everyone to express their own ideas, along with respecting each other's time by not being late or absent from group meetings or team assignment in-class days

Participation: We will:

• Every member will be held accountable to attend all potential fundraisers, group meetings, stakeholder meetings, and any events we hold with the Lyric

• All members will be responsible for completing their duties and tasks that were outlined throughout the duration of the project

Communication: We will:

• Use GroupMe for communication amongst the group

• Use vtprojectmanagement@gmail.com for communication with the Lyric and other stakeholders, both internal and external

• Communication must be effective and happen in a timely fashion before the designated starting time for group meetings and in-class group work days

• Always be inclusive, transparent, clear, and concise

Problem Solving: We will:

• First, define the problem which is hindering our progress and teamwork

• Find out the cause of that problem

• Come up with multiple solutions for the problem

• Select the best one with majority vote. Go democracy

Meeting Guidelines: We will:

• The meetings will be conducted every Wednesday from 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM at Johnston and Pamplin

• An optional meeting will be held on Fridays from 11:00 PM - 1:30 PM

• Must notify the team if you will be late or tardy at least 30 minutes prior to the designated meeting time. Communication should be done via GroupMe