Roles and Responsibilities
CHE 451 – Ideas for Roles and Responsibilities
Listed below are some ideas for roles and responsibilities within your CHE 451 design team. Feel free to use this and adapt it to the individuals, the project, and the constraints of your own team. Find a structure that works best for you, one which allows both accountability and balance.
Roles and Responsibilities
1. Team Member – note, everyone is a team member!
- Contributes to decision making (offer ideas, criticism, and votes)
- Completes assigned tasks
- Documents assigned tasks in written form and edits own work before submitting to editor
2. Task Leader
- Responsible for the quality and completion of assignments related to a major task
- Keeps the team focused on the task at hand
- Encourages everyone to participate
- Coordinates team meetings and meetings with advisors/consultants
3. Project Manager
- Liaison with project coach
- Tracks time log and action items to ensure that specific tasks are completed
- Works with team to redistribute work if someone is over- or under-loaded
4. Editor
- Makes writing assignments
- Collects information from each person to compile in one document
- Edits the document as a whole to ensure organization, structure, transitions, introduction/conclusion present in each section, common tone, etc.
- Gives feedback and suggestions on individual sections – seeks outside help if needed (peer review, writing center, etc.). If poor quality, may require rewrite and resubmittal.
- Does not write the whole document alone and unaided!