PMGT5887 Chap.12 Team Charters, Collaboration and Miro Whiteboards
Team Charters, Collaboration and Miro Whiteboards
Most marks in this unit are earned in teams, so this chapter gathers the material on working together from Week 1, the teamwork pages and Week 11. It sets out the ten parts of a team charter listed on the Week 1 slides and the questions the unit's charter template asks about communication, meetings, missed work, fair contribution, disagreement and the grade the team is aiming for.
It explains SMART goals, group norms through the forming, storming and norming stages, the conflict cases the unit uses, and a worked set of charter clauses that each name an action and a threshold. It connects attendance to team membership, because a student who does not attend may be placed in a group of one and lose group marks.
It finishes with Miro as an online whiteboard for distributed teams, the five Rs of reflective practice, contribution and self-assessment, and the rules for the final group presentation, where every member presents within a hard time limit. A worked SMART goal shows how to make a vague aim checkable.
What this chapter covers
- 01
What a team charter contains
- 02
Questions the charter template asks
- 03
SMART team goals
- 04
Group norms and team stages
- 05
Handling conflict in student teams
- 06
Reflection and fair contribution
- 07
Miro and the final presentation
Worked example · free
Turning a vague team goal into a SMART goal
- +1Specific: every member posts a three-line update in the team channel each Monday and Thursday.
- +1Measurable: the team lead checks the channel and records any missing updates in the contribution log.
- +1Attainable: three lines twice a week fits around every member's work and study timetable.
- +1Relevant: shared updates keep the group assignments on schedule and make fair contribution visible.
- +1Timely: the routine runs from Week 2 to the presentation in Week 12, reviewed at the end of Week 6.
Key terms
- Team Charter
- A document that establishes a team's values, agreements and operating guidelines.
- Group Norms
- The agreed standard ways a team's members are expected to behave and work together.
- SMART Goal
- A goal that is specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and timely.
- Reflective Practice
- Structured reflection that reports, responds, relates, reasons and reconstructs future practice.
- Online Whiteboard
- A shared digital canvas, such as Miro, on which a team can work live or at different times.
Team Charters, Collaboration and Miro Whiteboards FAQ
What should a team charter include?
The Week 1 slides list ten parts: team values, goals and objectives, roles, group norms, communication guidelines, decision-making criteria and process, a conflict resolution process, meeting guidelines, team agreements and ground rules.
How many people can be in a team?
Teams can have up to five members, with a few approved exceptions of six. Every team is formed within a single workshop session, so choose your teammates from the students who attend the same session as you.
What happens if I miss workshops?
Tutors form project groups in class, and the schedule page warns that a student who does not attend may be put into a group of one and lose any group marks.
How long is the final group presentation?
The presentation page sets a hard stop at 15 minutes with every member presenting and taking questions, while an earlier slide mentioned 10 to 12 minutes, so confirm the limit on Canvas.
What is Miro used for in project work?
Miro is an online collaborative whiteboard that lets co-located, distributed and remote teams work together whatever their format, tool, channel or time zone, live or at different times, with no physical room or whiteboard.
Assessment move
Write your own team's charter clauses as if-then rules with a threshold and an action, then test each one against a realistic problem. Practise rewriting three vague goals as SMART goals. Keep a weekly reflection of three lines using the five Rs; it doubles as evidence of your contribution. Before the presentation, rehearse to the shortest published time with every member speaking.
Open a free Miro board for your team, put the charter on it and use it in at least one meeting. Writing the charter together on a shared board makes the clauses more concrete and gives every member a visible place to add to them as the project changes.
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