Group Projects

It seems to be a common theme of this week's blogs to complain about the lack of effort by fellow team members. I've done a lot of work on the project, creating the website, but I enjoyed it. I have learned and done some things with CSS and HTML that I've wanted to try but didn't have (or take) the time. My experience with "group" projects is consistent with the 80/20 rule -- 80% of the work is done by 20% of the people. In our case, however, it's not quite that drastic. Debbie has done all she can reasonably do to manage the project, but when team member's output is neither job-effecting nor pay-effecting there isn't much you can do.

I've probably spent 30-40 hours on the project but much of that was in a learning mode. If I had to do it again it would probably take 1/4 that much time. Hey, I'm not complaining. I had a good time. My wife, however, was not as excited about my being cloistered away in the computer room all weekend!