Murder Mystery Collaboration

1.   Throughout the exercise it was easy to pick out different team roles that we all took on.  For example, Kevin organized the materials, handed out the papers, and kept everything in order.  In handing out specific papers and in turn roles, he was the Contractor, a task role.  Tina was able to listen to what we were all saying and convey it in a way that was easy for everyone to understand and agree was correct, so in that manner she was the social role of the Communicator.  I saw myself being the Completer, because I was putting all the information into our final arrest sheet.  All roles may not have come into play during the game, but in bringing our answers forward we had a Consul also.  Overall, we at least had to employ roles from all three categories.  

2.  I think that if we all were able to communicate better with each other we would have realized that there was different information on each sheet, which we didn't realize until after Professor Sheep had brought it to our attention.  I also think that having a Creator would have been helpful.  If we were able to have someone create a plan or process for systematically eliminating suspects we could have potentially gone much faster, making us the winning team.

3.   I would say our group is at the Norming stage.  We have a clear agreement on what tasks we need to get done and we are welcome to helping each other to achieve the greatest possible product.  We have little conflict, so we aren't Storming and we have direction and clear roles and responsibilities so we are no longer Forming.  We aren't close enough to the end of the year and turning in our project that we all have the Eye of the Tiger playing in our heads so I wouldn't say that we are Performing yet, but we plan on having a first draft before Thanksgiving break so we should be moving to the next stage shortly. 

-Amanda Inman