Like every great team or army, laying out the right plan is essential toward the road of success.

Our team looks to maintain our focus of staying ahead to provide us enough buffer time to locate and improve on any weak points that may arise; to be innovative, you must always be ahead of your competitors in some way. Exhibit A lays down the framework for our teams project timeline and also includes dates of our group checkpoints where we look to regroup and reflect as a whole of how the team is progressing so far on the current task at hand. To guarantee maximum productivity, our group has agreed to focus on each of our strengths and assign roles correlated towards those strengths. With each different aspect of any future task mapped out and designated, our group can efficiently move along the task as one unit. A breakdown of each members role can be seen in Exhibit B.

Roles Stephania is assigned the role of PowerPoint designer given her already solid foundation of understanding for Microsoft office, creative eye, and her enthusiasm to become a PowerPoint wiz. In addition she has been assigned the role of devils advocate. Out of our group, Stephania is by far the most outgoing person who possesses quite a repertoire of communication skills. Taking this into consideration we believe Stephania is best suited to be our teams bearer of bad news. It is noted that our team shows its appreciation for Stephanias willingness to bite the bullet. Rounding out Stephanias role, the team as also designated Stephania as the teams official mother figure. Stephania possesses that certain personality set that yearns to care for all the team members in a manner quite similar to how a mother goose would care for her ducklings. Stephania has been a forerunning advocate for team bonding and has been very vocal in cooking the team homemade meals and gone even further to offering to do our laundry. Mike joins Stephania with the task of designing the teams PowerPoint presentations. Like Stephania, Mike shares the traits of a solid foundation for Microsoft Office and also the enthusiasm to polish his PowerPoint making skills. Given Mikes own personal communication skills and his unique spunk, we have agreed to deem him both team encourager and consensus tester. Mike has demonstrated he has both the patience and gentleness to delicately pick his team members up if they so happen to fall into a fragile state and the harshness and sternness needed for the team to push through difficult patches. Given such a broad range, we thought Mike would be the perfect man to be our middle ground tester and thus our consensus tester. Mike fears nothing, further it is a long line for at a bagel shop or meeting during the early hours of a Sunday morning; what better man suited for the job. Peter offers his own array of skills to the group. Like Stephania, he keeps an eye out for the details of our presentations and other works and loves to be involved in the framework of our group. Thus we believe that he would be a great fit for the roles of mediator and facilitator. Peter is driven to always achieve his goals, with his fulfillment of his respective roles we can expect him to constantly push the team to its boundaries in its strives to be innovative and unified. His eye to details definitely comes in handy for his additional role of being the note taker. Peter may not be the faster of note takers but he never misses the key components of any given information. This itself can help the team focus more on focal points rather than be distract by less important aspects. Carol is arguably the most organized of the group: reliable, responsible, and always on top of her task at hand. Why not assign the most organized member the role of meeting organizer? Carol takes extra detail already in our team discussions on when to make the next meeting times. She is the person who constantly checks and validates our availabilities in our own hectic schedules and looks to even assign smaller meetings for those who could not attend the major group meetings. Carol also joins the ranks of the select few with the courage and expertise in bringing down the thunder; thus Carol joins in partnership with Stephania. At times cold when need be, yet direct, Carol is no sugar coating when it comes to rallying the team towards information other groups would avoid. She is a great counterpart to Stephania in fulfilling this rather unpopular role.

Lastly we turn our attention to Shuhan. Although Shuhan as well demonstrates a solid foundation in Microsoft Office, we looked to use her technological expertise in a different field to provide a more balanced edge to our team. What great innovative teams do is stay on the researching edge and produce what others have yet to learn about. Given Shuhans expertise, we believe she will be very well suited in being our teams designated researcher. With her at the researching hand, we are confident that our group will remain insightful in any of our projects. Shuhan too remains quite on top of her organization skills, always arriving on time and has a watch always at hand. We believe that she would be best suited for the roles of the time and gate keeper. The decision seemed to be quite obvious. Why not select the member who consistently arrives first to meetings be in charge of gate keeping. Why not select the member who consistently has her eye on the clock. Shuhans role is essential for our team to learn to be as productive and efficient as possible given the pressure of time limits.