tP: Forming Teams

[Picture: The team that was at the top of early Google]

When to form teams

• CS2103T: Your team will be formed by the CS2101 side.
• CS2103: Your team will be formed at the start of the week 3 tutorial. Please try to arrive on time for that tutorial; if you are not there at the team forming time and others in the class are unaware which team you wanted to be in, we'll have to put you into a team randomly.

Team size

• The default team size is five.

Team composition

• We allow some freedom in choosing team members, subject to these constraints:
  • All team members should be in the same tutorial. Delay forming teams until your place in a tutorial is confirmed. We do not allow changing tutorials to team up with your preferred team mates.
  • Teams of single nationality are not allowed unless the only language common among all team members is English. e.g. an all-Singaporean team that include both Chinese and Malay students. Rationale: to train you to work in multicultural teams, to ensure that English is used for all project communication
  • No more than one exchange students per team Rationale: to increase interaction between exchange students and NUS students.
  • Same gender teams are discouraged but allowed. Rationale: to train you for mixed-gender work environments.
• We may modify teams when circumstances call for it. There is no avenue for you to object. Staying with your preferred team is not guaranteed.

Team ID

• To be given to you after forming teams.
• Has the form TUTORIAL_ID-TEAM_NUMBER e.g, CS2103-W14-2 means you are in tutorial CS2103-W14 (i.e., in module CS2103, on Wednesday, at 1400-1500), team 2.

Team Communications

• Use English for all team communications, both spoken and written.
• We recommend at least one 1-2 hour face-to-face project meeting per week, in addition to any online meetings. Reason: you need to know how to run both types of project meetings. The project meeting time can be used to discuss project related things, but also, can be used as a time for team members to work on the project tasks individually (having all members in the same place will facilitate easier collaboration and more peer-learning).
• Fix a weekly 1-2 hour time slot and a venue for project meetings after the team has been finalized (latest by week 3 tutorial). All members are expected to attend weekly project meetings (not doing so could lower the peer evaluation ratings you receive, which in turn will be factored into your grade).
  The best time to have the weekly project meeting is, after the previous week's lecture but before the deadline for weekly tasks.