Post-Mortem

    In my past experience, there can be many aspects that go into planning a project that can go wrong due to a break down communication. When working with others on a project, it is valuable to have the entire team on the same page. If all of the team members have the same goal, then the project should meet the proposed objectives set forth. Once I worked with a group of teachers, on a grade level, for choosing which curriculum that we would vote to implement in our district for the following year. It was the longest two weeks of my professional career!

    When dealing with a grade level leader, that relinquishes her authority to whoever challenges ideas, is a step in the wrong direction for any project. The grade level chairperson/ project leader didn't realize her role as a leader or driver " Drivers are people who have some say in defining the results that a project is to achieve" (Portny et.al, 2008).  So since the grade level leader wasn't assuming control, the project became harder to follow the guidelines that we were given by the administration. Eventhough we were given clear instructions to view the content and rate it accordingly it wasn't getting accomplished as a team.

    Finally, the group decided,  that we would split up content. This conclusion only came when the team realized that we had reached the timeline and had to do something and fast. The things that did work were realization of a timeline and delegating work in increments to others in the group.

References:
Portny, S. E., Mantel, S. J., Meredith, J. R., Shafer, S. M., Sutton, M. M., & Kramer, B. E. (2008). Project management: Planning, scheduling, and controlling projects. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.