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Essay Instructions: Prepare a mini report on the following:
Topic: Explain the types of development teams
- Explain the various forms of development teams, advantages and disadvantages
- Describe where resources are obtained
- Discuss who has formal responsibility over the resources

The reference material is Schilling, M.A. (2006) Strategic management of technological innovation. McGraw-Hill/Irwin. see attached case study.

Essay Instructions: Hi,
Tow e-mails has been sent including a case study about Lumen and Absorb Team.
3 pages analysis paper is required. The analysis should answer the following questions:

1.What are the differences between the two elite technology development teams at Crutchfield Chemical Engineering in terms of motivation and creativity?
2.From the electronic daily diaries what are the differences in team leader behavior, team members? thoughts and behaviors and team dynamics?

you have to use this link to answer the folowing Question:
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3.From your reading ?Managing for Creativity?, what are key components to enhance creativity? How do the teams compare?

Essay Instructions: There are four sources for this.

1st:
Charlie Poole's Three Week Project Turnaround [available at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ThreeWeekProjectTurnaround and http://www.charliepoole.org/article.php?p=turnaround

The second is an interesting piece of practice wisdom:

Russ Finney (2005) Winning Project Teams. ITMWeb. [available at http://www.itmweb.com/essay003.htm

Then there are two research-based commentaries on the team development process:

Deborah Sole & Lynda Applegate (2000) . Knowledge Sharing Practices And Technology Use Norms In Dispersed Development Teams . Proceedings of the twenty first international conference on Information systems. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=359821

Amy Ohlendorf (2001) Conflict Resolution in Project Management. Working Paper. [available at http://www.umsl.edu/~sauter/analysis/488_f01_papers/Ohlendorf.htm



Note also that Poole describes the use of certain "extreme programming" (XP, not to be confused with Windows XP) practices such as "Continuous Integration", "Small Releases", "Onsite Customer" and "the Planning Game". You may want to use the Wiki or other XP sources to research these practices to some degree in pursuit of your ideas.

When you've read through the articles and related material and thought about it carefully, please compose a short (ca. 4-5 page) paper on the topic:

"Lessons learned from the Three Week Project Turnaround: What went right, what went wrong, and why

The following questions are suggested as things to think about, not necessarily as points to be answered specifically in your paper:

Have you ever been in a situation even remotely like that of the three-week project?

How much flexibility do project managers typically exercise in situations like this?

How much do you have to know about methodologies like those described here, in order to make them work for you and your team?

Is it really true that it doesn't matter what you do, as long as you get results? Or is it possible that in fact no good deed goes unpunished?