Team Stages:• Forming• Storming• Conflict and chaos• Arguments, development of subgroups, and disunity• Little progress toward goal• Norming• Roles and norms are established• Team members have a shared understanding of team priorities and capabilities• Conflict reduces and productivity increases dramatically• Performing• Unproductive conflict stops• Team members anticipate, prevent, or work through problems• The team is productive• AdjourningTeaming Tools and Roles:• Tools• Agenda• Action items• Issues bin• Code of cooperation/team contract• Roles• Coordinator (not the boss!)• Recorder• Timekeeper• Encourager/gatekeeper (Attempts to maintain a balanced level of participation by all team members.)• Devil’s advocate (Expresses an opinion that disagrees with others in an attempt to provoke discussion and keep a team from rushing to judgment.)Design Process!1. Needfinding2. Problem Scoping3. Concept Generation 4. Concept Reduction / Selection5. Detail Solution Selected;Evaluation of Solution6. Communicate Final Solution• Prior art is information or ideas that are available to the public in any form; the work that has been done before you begin your project/work/patent.• Looking at prior art can provide ideas and inspiration. It can also make engineers aware of what already
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