Building Efficient Cars and an Effective Team

Natasha Pye; Jason Wang

Building an Efficient Car

and an Effective Team

ASLS 2017

2017-01-28

Jason R. Wang and Natasha Pye

Check-in

Hold up 1-5 fingers

5: feeling awesome

1: physically here, but

not mentally here

No need to explain or

justify

Why do we check-in?

Who are we?

Team History

Challenges and Changes

Turnover

Size increase

The Power of Teams

Teams can do more!

Challenges of last year’s team

Miscommunications

Loss of institutional memory

Challenges of working on a large team

Varying levels of commitment

Harder to keep track of progress

Communication

The Fundamentals of Team Work

What makes a successful team?

Common Goal

Structure:

Communication and Time Management

Management and Leadership Archetypes

Leaders must:

Identify potential issues; plan ahead

Develop themselves and team members

Applying the fundamentals of teamwork

Communication

Approaches

Transparency

Meeting Styles

Tools

Slack

Email

Google Groups

Google Calendar

Trello

Time Management

Plan ahead

Setting a timeline together

for the year

Identifying potential

challenges

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PCB ordering complete – Jan 11

Digikey ordering complete – Jan 23 Test bench planning complete – Jan 30

Mec. ordering (enclosure, test bench, fittings, valves, p.sensor) complete - Jan 30

Assembly and coding of PCB’s - Jan 23 - 30 Build loadbank - Jan 16 - 30 Loadbank complete - Jan 30

Build Alice FC encl. faceplate - Jan 30 - Feb 13 Rewire Alice Enclosure - Jan 30 - Feb 13

Test bench wiring + building - Jan 30 - Feb 13 All proto. enclosure mec. parts ready - Feb 13

ALICE FC SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL - Feb 13 TEST BENCH COMPLETE + CODED - Feb 13

Both controllers testing and Alice FC optimization with bench - Feb 13 - 27

Reading “Get’er-Done” week - Feb 20 - 24 BOTH CONTROLLERS DEBUGGED - Feb 27

PROTO. ENCL. MEC. COMPLETE - Feb 27

Wire prototype enclosure - Feb 27 - March 13 PROTO. FC ENCL. WIRED - March 13

PROTO. FC ARRIVES - (approx.) March 15 Test car with prototype FC (optimization, time

permitting) – March 15 - March 26 PROTOTYPE FC TESTED IN CAR - March 26

Cars ship (Freight option) - March 26

Last Day of Classes - April 12 Final Exams - April 16 - 29

Cars Ship (Driving option) – (approx.) April 20 Shell EcoMarathon Competition – April 27 - 30

Scrum

What is scrum?

Why do we use it?

Management and Leadership Archetypes

Management: distributing resources

Leadership: developing people

Leadership vs. followership

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ

Maintaining involvement and engagement

Looking to improve this

Fundamentals of “successful teams”

Encouraging innovation and initiative

Determining members’ goals

Developing members

Identifying issues

Turnover, school, commitment

level, burnout etc.

How to manage these issues:

Mentorship and developing members

Transparency and flexibility

Celebrate success!

Courage is not a superhuman trait!