It was my design versus Eric’s. I was confident though; the engineering analysis favored my design. Plus and I was the project lead, and the choice was mine. What could go wrong?
All tagged Teams
Interdisciplinary Teams
So many things contribute to the success of a team-based project. It’s pretty clear, though, that the team itself is one of them. Team composition, purpose, goals, approach, and team member behavior are all variables that can be tuned to get a high performing team. This article shares thoughts on each of them.
Groupthink in Design Thinking
There are a lot of reasons to seek a unanimous decision. We do it all the time to be or feel united, avoid hard feelings, increase buy-in, etc. But when the stakes are higher, and the decisions are more complicated and multi-dimensional, the last thing you want is full consensus early on in the decision-making process.
How to Ideate as a Team
Almost all product development is done in a team setting, owing largely to the strongly held belief that the collective thinking of a group outperforms that of “the lone genius."
The Ten Faces of Innovation
There is a time and a place for being a devil's advocate, but those moments can stifle innovation, hurt feelings, and cut off dialogue if not preformed in an acceptable way.