After having read this article, it’s apparent to me that group development and teaming is an essential part of our lives. Without it, I doubt we’d have as many innovations and advancements as we have in the last few decades. This is incredibly useful info regarding my prospective career in software engineering because that’s almost always a team job. People combine their brains to implement one single functioning system.

Hearing about the Tuckman’s stage model regarding group development and team work made it incredibly clear what went right and wrong throughout the two universities shared experience. This is something that I will try to do myself when meeting for my next lab this week.

I’m curious to see the results and if we perform better or worse as a result. I’m assuming the outcome will be good but we already have a good thing going, so perhaps bringing something like this into the mix now might cause confusion. I’ll update next week during my DEJ post if I remember.

Natvig, D., & Stark, N. L. (2016). A project team analysis using Tuckman’s model of small-group development.