MGMT600 MBA CAPSTONE
TEAM CHARTER
I. TEAM INFORMATION
TEAM: B
TEAM DURATION: 1-8 8 weeks
COURSE: MGMT600 REPORTING TO: Professor Michael McGivern
MEMBER NAME # PHONE # E-MAIL AVAILABILITY
JAMES STOJKOV 1 216-408-9517
[email protected] After 5:00 pm cell
After 8 pm EST
ANITA CHAMPION BURKS 2 816-304-3303
[email protected] Anytime
MICHEALS PEREZ 3 951-719-5511
[email protected] Anytime
FAIDAT WOLEOLA 4 708-362-4308
[email protected] 12-2p.m CST
MATHEW BERG 5 206-914-9438
[email protected] Pacific time – anytime with prior notification
STEVEN EARLY 6
OSHOMA ABIBU 7 862-262-5986
[email protected] 7:00 PM
Additional Team members as required
II. TEAM PRODUCT OR SERVICE DESCRIPTION—REVIEW THE MATERIAL IN THE PROBLEM AND THE ANSWER TAB OF OUR COURSE TO HELP YOU SELECT A BUSINESS IDEA.
Describe your product or service idea. How does your concept solve a problem in the marketplace? Is your solution unique? If not, how will you differentiate yourselves from the existing competition? Make sure you identify the intended target audience. Include a mission or value statement which outlines your company’s guiding principles and priorities in delivering the product or service. Your instructor will review this information to approve your business idea.
I propose we write our paper about a Wind Generation Manufacturing Plant. With the coal-fired electrical plants creating additional pollution and wind generation farms becoming more acceptable as a source of electricity, the manufacture of the wind generators (windmills) is becoming a more competitive marketplace. The current manufacturers are finding flaws in their design that are creating dangerous sites when high winds and tornadic activity is present.
The business could also fill the void for suburban wind generators for use in residential areas. Currently, a residence must have a minimum of 3 acres of property to erect a residential wind generator. This is due to the design of the units available for residential use.
If we decide, as a team, to go with this idea, the Mission Statement could be:
“Home-Wind Bound is dedicated to bringing affordable, clean energy for use in the single family home in any city, USA.”
III. TEAM MANAGEMENT PLAN
This section defines how the team will allocate assignments and talents
a) Team Leadership: One person will be named the team/project leader to provide overall leadership and continuity to the project.
Your team leader will be: Faidat Woleola
b) Deliverable Management: Each deliverable will be assigned a component Manager. In the case of larger teams, you may assign more than one person to a deliverable. In the case of smaller teams, the team lead may also have to take on the role of a component lead too. The level of effort required for components will vary depending on your business idea. Review the business plan rubric to gain a sense of the amount of content required to help you balance your team’s workload with your skills, interests, and your specific business idea. List your component managers in the table.
Deliverable Due Date Manager Assigned
Team Charter With
Business Description
Week 1
Industry Analysis
Week 3
Anita Champion-Burks (requested)
Marketing Plan
Week 4 Oshoma Abibu (requested)
Michael Perez (requested)
Operations Plan
Week 5
Financial Plan
Week 6
Faidat Woleola (requested)
Presentation (Team)
As scheduled
Final Plan (Team)
Week 8
c) Skills Inventory: Identify each team member’s personal, professional, and academic strengths and weaknesses in the table.
Name Strengths Weaknesses
Michael Perez Excellent communication Perfectionist, picky about certain details
Anita Champion-Burks Personal: Communication with others
Professional: Accepts all challenges
Academic: SWOT Analysis Personal: Get emotionally attached easily
Professional: No business experience
Academic: Statistics
Faidat Woleola Personal: Communicating effectively
Personal: Make sure everyone is on the same page, open to ideas, dislikes social loafers
Professional: Intellectual
Academic: Project management
Oshoma Abibu Personal: Good communication
Professional: Analytical mind
Academic: Economics Personal: Very patience
Professional:
Academic: slow
James Stojkov Personal:
Professional:
Academic: Personal:
Professional:
Academic:
Mathew Berg Personal:
Professional:
Academic: Personal:
Professional:
Academic:
Steven Early Personal:
Professional:
Academic: Personal:
Professional:
Academic:
IV. PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN
a) Meeting and Communication Plan: How often will you meet, and by what methods? How will you communicate between meetings and distribute agenda items, follow-up items, or other required communication?
Team B will meet at least once a week in the iConnect Meeting. All other communication will be via Team B Discussion, email, and telephone communications. Agenda items and other distribution items will be found in the Team B Discussion area.
b) Documents and Change Management: How will documents be shared and stored? How will you keep track of different drafts (versions) of the same document?
Documents will be shared in the Team B Discussion area as attachments. Each team member will submit their document with the date of submission and their name as part of the title. As each draft is updated, it will be assigned a number; i.e. Draft 1, Draft 2, etc., submitted by Anita, Faidat, Michael, etc. It will be the responsibility of each Team member to track the Drafts for final compilation.
IV. CONFLICT MANAGEMENT PLAN
Describe how your team will manage conflict.
Potential Conflict Recommended Solution
Member misses a meeting
Reminder phone call
Member cannot be reached
Email communication regarding missed meeting.
Member does not complete work on time
Ask if assistance is required of other team members.
Member work is unsatisfactory
If assistance is necessary to fulfill the obligation of the team member, the team will be compelled to finish the work to the satisfaction of the team.
Member drops the course
The work assigned to this team member will be divided among the remaining team members or to one team member with the assistance of other members.
Member has an unavoidable emergency that delays work
Team member’s notes and other work should be gathered and the work reassigned, as needed, for the completion of the project.
How will you resolve minor disagreements?
The Team Leader will decide how to resolve minor disagreements.
Who rules for major disagreements—team leader or majority rule?
Majority Rule will govern over major disagreements.
How will you use the Peer Review at the end of the course? What are the consequences of unsatisfactory performance?
eCollege is temporarily offline or class time is cancelled
Email communication or phone calls to team members to get information exchanged to complete the project.
Other potential conflict
Team meeting for resolution.
V. TEAM RULES
Create a list of rules to help you collaborate as a team, including expectations about meetings, communication, course work, conflict resolution, and so on, based on other elements of this charter.
TEAM B RULES
1. The Team will use the Team Discussion area and iConnect Meetings as their primary source of direct communication. Additionally, Team B will utilize email and telephone communications, as needed, to complete the project.
2. The scheduling of the Team B meetings will use the availability schedule of each member, as submitted in the Team Information section of the Team Charter, and attempt to accommodate each member.
3. If a Team B member cannot attend a scheduled meeting, all work required for the meeting will be submitted to the Team Leader at least one hour before the meeting begins. Additionally, the work should be submitted as an attachment in the Team Discussion area for all Team B members to download. Notification of the absence should be made to the Team Leader and all other Team B members.
4. If a Team B member misses a scheduled meeting, she/he must contact the Team Leader to receive additional assignments made during the missed meeting.
5. All Team B members will:
• Listen to others ideas with an open mind.
• Participate in discussions.
• Accept the group’s decisions, even if they are not your own.
• All comments made in the discussions will remain confidential to the team.
• If there is a conflict, resolve the issue immediately. If a resolution cannot be found, discuss it with the Team Leader for resolution. If necessary, take the conflict to the Professor for resolution.
• If you are unable to complete a task or feel overwhelmed with the project assignment you were given, talk to the Team Leader to get assistance.
6. Each Team member agrees to participate in the Project and give 100% to their assigned tasks. Dedication and commitment by the entire Team will enable the project to progress smoothly.
7. If a family emergency, illness, or other emergency arises, the Team member should notify the Team Leader as quickly as possible to enable the entire Team to assist in the completion of that portion of the project.
8. The submissions by Team B members should be of high quality with no grammatical errors or misspellings. Any researched materials must be submitted with references attached.
VI. CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS FOR YOUR BUSINESS PLAN
Refer back to your team project product or service description. Identify critical success factors for your product or service idea. For example, are you depending on outside suppliers, retail traffic, technology, or advertising success? What steps can you take to achieve these factors?
Critical Success Factors Reason for Importance Steps Taken to Ensure Attainment
VII. Commitment
Each team member is to write an individual commitment statement.