Team Charter

Attendance: Attendance is mandatory unless a legitimate excuse is provided to team members a reasonable amount of time prior to planned meeting. An absence without a legitimate excuse/contacting other team members will earn a warning; any additional absences may result in further intervention. If the problem persists, we will organize an immediate group meeting to discuss what is going wrong, how can we resolve this problem, and what we can all do differently in order to better accommodate the team member’s schedule. If problems continue, we may organize a meeting with the TA to discuss possible expulsion from the team.

Contacting others: Email and texting will be the primary methods of contact. Emails will be used mainly for specifics about our project, organizing meetings, and collaboration. Texting will be used for very general concerns about the project, setting up meetings, and anything that requires immediate attention. Google Docs will be used to manage our documents.

Roles: In order to stay in the loop and on top of our tasks, we have designed our roles to be somewhat flexible. Jen Reilly will be the team leader and in charge of setting up meetings, organizing our objectives, and keeping us on task. Cassie Thomack will be in charge of marketing our product and staying in contact with our network. John Nida will be in charge of the finances, public relations, and assisting Jen and Cassie in whatever task is necessary. We will all be responsible for the end result in order to ensure no one person is overwhelmed.

Dealing with errant members: If a member submits subpar results we will encourage the member to pick it up and work as a team to ensure the best results are always submitted. A team meeting may be required if there are outside factors that are affecting the quality of work submitted by a team member. If a deadline is missed, the team will meet up in order to figure out what went wrong, what can be done to avoid this, and to assess the issues that have arisen. If a member refuses to respond to group emails/texts consistently, all members will approach the errant member in order to discuss what the problem is and to encourage better communication in order to ensure the best results possible.

Decision Making: All decisions will be made based on a consensus format. For very tough decisions, a Pro vs. Con chart will be made before thoroughly discussing the reasons for our decisions.  Conflict is natural and will be dealt with in a professional and calm manner. The entire team will meet to discuss the conflict and figure out what can be done to overcome the conflict. No one should take anything too personally; everyone has his or her personal beliefs/rationales that may be different than those of his or her fellow team members. The key to resolving a conflict will be open communication while remaining calm. Team members can be kicked off the team if they continually fail to participate in all aspects of the project without a reasonable excuse (illness, family emergency, other personal issues, etc). The member will receive one warning without consequences. If the problem continues, the member will be warned once again and the team will meet to discuss further action. If a third warning is given, the member will be subject to termination based on a vote by the rest of the team. A log for attendance/problems will be kept and updated every meeting in order to document any discrepancies.

Meetings: The group will meet a minimum of once per week in order to ensure all members are on the same page. We may meet several times per week when necessary (approaching due date, group out of tune, problems, etc.…). All meetings will be held in the Southeast part of campus.

Finances: We will split the equity evenly between the three of us. John will be responsible for the bookkeeping.

Project Requirements

Team Charter	John
Market Analysis: Micro- Macro-	John, Cassie Jen
Blog	Cassie, Jen
Business Model	ALL
Meetings	Jen
Final Write-up	ALL
Revisions	ALL
Make Money	ALL