English 363 Team Charter - Group 6 (Dream Team)

Team Members: Megan Contreras, Ashly Ng, Andrew Franco-Guerrero

Team Name: Dream Team 
Team Logo: 

Purposes of Charter:
1. To have an agreed upon contract between all team members on how the project will be
handled.
2. To have an agreed upon padded timeline to prevent the team from falling behind on the
actual due dates.
3. This document is meant for Dr. Bruce and the rest of the team to reference in case of
conflict.

Padded Timeline:
 Each group member finds 4 individual sources: 4/8/21
 Creation of Weebly Website: 4/14/21 
 Write summary description for each source: 4/16/21
 Each group member creates individual graphic: 4/19/21
 Create 4 Annotations for individual sources: 4/19/21
 Team AB Draft: 4/20/21
 Final Team AB: 4/24/21

Team Goals:
1. Improve reading comprehension of journals and articles.
2. Improve writing skills and citing skills.
3. Improve our ability to utilize scientific databases.
4. Improve graphic design skills.

Personal Goals:
 Megan: I want to use this project as an opportunity to improve my writing skills, as well
as my citing skills. I tend to have difficulty when citing sources, so this project will be a
big help to me.
 Andrew: A goal I plan to achieve through this project is to master my citing! I want to
improve how to cite journals and databases at a quicker rate. As well as when to
incorporate different sources and when to use images.
 Ashly: I hope to learn more about how to use scientific databases to find good peer
reviewed journals, especially how to filter or search key terms related to our topic. I also
struggle with making citations and knowing what format to follow, so I’d like to improve
on that as well. 

Individual Level of Commitment:

  Megan: I am going to put in my best effort to meet deadlines and to do my best on this
project. I have an 18-month-old daughter and I do not always have access to childcare, so
it may be difficult for me to do Zoom meetings. I will do my best to attend all Zoom
meetings.
 Andrew: I tend to be very organized and on point with scheduled events, although I have
a full schedule I will make all zoom meetings to improve our work and contribute to my
group.
 Ashly: I am committed to getting the best grade we can for this assignment. I plan on
completing tasks that we set up according to our padded timeline. My schedule is fairly
flexible so I should be able to attend any scheduled zoom meetings. 

Other Concerns:
 Megan is concerned that members of the team will procrastinate and wait until the last
minute to submit work.

Conflict Resolution:
We will do a ⅔ majority vote on how to handle individual impasses. If we cannot reach a 2/3
majority decision, we will discuss the conflict with Dr. Bruce and ask her what our next steps
should be. We will also implement a 3 strikes policy, where if there are more than 3 violations of
the team charter, then Dr. Bruce will be alerted. If needed, we will also have a zoom meeting to
discuss the conflict.

How the team will handle missed deadlines:

Missed deadlines are very serious, the first missed deadline will result in a warning and the
second missed deadline will result in alerting Dr. Bruce. Our project manager will remind team
members of deadlines to help prevent missed deadlines. We understand that sometimes
circumstances that team members have no control over happen, and when this happens, we will
have a discussion with the team and decide what to do.

Unacceptable work:
Our team defines unacceptable work as work that clearly is low effort, that does not meet the
standards of the guidelines of the assignment, and that has major errors. When unacceptable
work is submitted, a group member will bring this up to the group member that has submitted it
and will be expected to create a revised document. The revised document will be expected to be
submitted within the 24 hours of the alert. If needed, a zoom meeting will be done to discuss how
the work can be improved. To prevent unacceptable work from occurring, we will have zoom
meetings as needed to discuss the assignment.