Team Work

Question 1

A team is better off without conflict.

Answer 1

False Effective teams include members with diverse thinking styles, approaches, experience and knowledge. You want differences of opinion. It will increase a team’s energy level and provide greater creativity through myriad viewpoints. The ideas that do survive are stronger as members are challenged to elaborate on their ideas so that others better understand them.

Question 2

What are the 4 stages of team development?

Answer 2

Performing Norming Storming Forming

Question 3

Assuming a team goes through all four stages of team development, which stage has the lowest productivity or performance?

Answer 3

Storming

Question 4

Problems first start to appear during what stage of team development?

Answer 4

Storming

Question 5

Which type of problem solving should you attempt first?

Answer 5

Collaboration problem solving

Question 6

Following an Agile methodology makes it ___________ for a team member to go dark.

Answer 6

harder, On an agile project a team member can’t go dark beyond an iteration because teams show results at the end of each iteration.

Question 7

All conflict should be resolved privately.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Is the following an acceptable ground rule for a team?

“No critical/harsh behavior towards other members.”

Answer 8

No. It’s too vague. What is considered harsh will vary among team members. You haven’t really set any ground rules.

Question 9

What is the ringelmann effect?

Answer 9

The Ringelmann effect is the tendency for individual members of a group to become increasingly less productive as the size of their group increases.

Question 10

Is the Ringelmann Effect more or less of an issue as team size increases?

Answer 10

More

Question 11

What are the main sources of the Ringelmann effect?

Answer 11

• loss of productivity due to inability to coordinate the work of multiple individuals
• loss of motivation when team members feel their contributions aren’t indentifiable

Question 12

Is it possible to trust and respect someone you aren’t friends with? Is it possible to trust and respect someone you don’t like?

Answer 12

Yes, Yes

Question 13

If I assigned a team grade based on the collective work of the team and did away with individual point allocations (everyone gets the same grade), would social loafing likely go up, down or stay the same.

Answer 13

go up

Question 14

With a homogeneous group,

Answer 14

group think is likely to increase and conflict is likely to decrease