04 Team Psychology.md

# Team Psychology

This week is for you and your team to take a deep breath after an intense week where you attempted to build a simple smarthome system. Despite the task seeming to be relatively simple on paper you will have struggled to get it completed. This lab you will be reflecting on why this was the case.

Resources:

1. [Lecture slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_mMYilNPr1QCobs1wGp_Z6e8JyNJsOazRKAQkWbghwQ/edit?usp=sharing)

## 1 Reflection

Once you are all logged into the MS Teams portal you should reflect on the technical work your team carried out last week. Discuss the following points and make notes:

1. What went well?
2. What challenges did you face?
3. What will you change next time your team works on the project?
4. Were there any skills missing from the team and how did this impact the project?

## 2 CPD Peer Review

During the first week you put together a document that describes three skills you have agreed to learn. Locate this document and put yourself in a small group of 2 or three away from the rest of the team. Make sure the other members of your team _don't_ have the same skill set! Print off enough copies of your CPD plan to give to the all the members of our small group (including one for yourself).

1. Put all smartphones on silent and place them in your pockets.
2. Put all laptops in their bags and make sure any computer monitors are off.
3. Each person in the small group should go through their plan, discuss these points and make notes on the printout:
    1. Was the skill relevent to the project?
    2. Did they learn the skill?
    3. What three skills do they want to learn over the next three weeks?
4. Next, each member should create a fresh CPD plan using the headings from the week 1 lab exercise. Once complete, this document should be shared via the OneDrive folder on MS teams, you will be returning to this in 3 weeks time.

## 3 DiSC Personality Test

Your next task is to complete the online [DiSK personality test](https://www.123test.com/disc-personality-test/). Consider your DiSC profile, does this reflect you as a person and how you interact with the rest of the team? As a team compare your profiles and discuss how this information helps you reflect on the team interactions.

## 4 Team Psychology

As a group, review the materials on team psychology from the lecture:

1. Did your group exhibit any known psychologicsl traits?
2. Why did these occur?
3. What team roles (Belbin) did members demonstrate?
4. Where on the Team Development Model (Tuckman) are you as a team?
5. By labelling these traits you should be able to search for strategies your team can employ to prevent them happening again.

## 5 Demonstration

The first task is to set up your system and show the lab tutor what you got working. You will be doing this even if your system is not 'complete'. If the lab supervisor is busy with another team, get the system set up and start working on task 2 while you are waiting.

## 6 Microsoft Teams

Next, all the group members should install MS Teams on their smartphones (and laptops if possible) and log in using their university email and password. Once logged in, everyone will find they have been placed in a team. If you are not in a team or in the wrong team, let the lab supervisor know immediately.

Next week you will be learning about the **Scum** methodology and applying it to your development team.