Building Efficient Cars and an Effective Team
Natasha Pye; Jason Wang
Building an Efficient Car
and an Effective Team
ASLS 2017
2017-01-28
Jason R. Wang and Natasha Pye
Check-in
Hold up 1-5 fingers
5: feeling awesome
1: physically here, but
not mentally here
No need to explain or
justify
Why do we check-in?
Who are we?
Team History
Challenges and Changes
Turnover
Size increase
The Power of Teams
Teams can do more!
Challenges of last year’s team
Miscommunications
Loss of institutional memory
Challenges of working on a large team
Varying levels of commitment
Harder to keep track of progress
Communication
The Fundamentals of Team Work
What makes a successful team?
Common Goal
Structure:
Communication and Time Management
Management and Leadership Archetypes
Leaders must:
Identify potential issues; plan ahead
Develop themselves and team members
Applying the fundamentals of teamwork
Communication
Approaches
Transparency
Meeting Styles
Tools
Slack
Google Groups
Google Calendar
Trello
Time Management
Plan ahead
Setting a timeline together
for the year
Identifying potential
challenges
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PCB ordering complete – Jan 11
Digikey ordering complete – Jan 23 Test bench planning complete – Jan 30
Mec. ordering (enclosure, test bench, fittings, valves, p.sensor) complete - Jan 30
Assembly and coding of PCB’s - Jan 23 - 30 Build loadbank - Jan 16 - 30 Loadbank complete - Jan 30
Build Alice FC encl. faceplate - Jan 30 - Feb 13 Rewire Alice Enclosure - Jan 30 - Feb 13
Test bench wiring + building - Jan 30 - Feb 13 All proto. enclosure mec. parts ready - Feb 13
ALICE FC SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL - Feb 13 TEST BENCH COMPLETE + CODED - Feb 13
Both controllers testing and Alice FC optimization with bench - Feb 13 - 27
Reading “Get’er-Done” week - Feb 20 - 24 BOTH CONTROLLERS DEBUGGED - Feb 27
PROTO. ENCL. MEC. COMPLETE - Feb 27
Wire prototype enclosure - Feb 27 - March 13 PROTO. FC ENCL. WIRED - March 13
PROTO. FC ARRIVES - (approx.) March 15 Test car with prototype FC (optimization, time
permitting) – March 15 - March 26 PROTOTYPE FC TESTED IN CAR - March 26
Cars ship (Freight option) - March 26
Last Day of Classes - April 12 Final Exams - April 16 - 29
Cars Ship (Driving option) – (approx.) April 20 Shell EcoMarathon Competition – April 27 - 30
Scrum
What is scrum?
Why do we use it?
Management and Leadership Archetypes
Management: distributing resources
Leadership: developing people
Leadership vs. followership
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ
Maintaining involvement and engagement
Looking to improve this
Fundamentals of “successful teams”
Encouraging innovation and initiative
Determining members’ goals
Developing members
Identifying issues
Turnover, school, commitment
level, burnout etc.
How to manage these issues:
Mentorship and developing members
Transparency and flexibility
Celebrate success!
Courage is not a superhuman trait!
