COIT20249 Professional Skills In Information Communication Technology

Describe the experience including your exact contribution for the outcome. Demonstrate what you have learnt from the experience, describe how you would handle a similar situation differently in the future, and evaluate the positives and negatives of the experience.

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In one of my past experiences, I was put on a new project on which a team of five people had to work. My senior was given the responsibility for the distribution of work among the team. I was the newest in the organization although had more overall experience than the others in the team. Considering my skills, knowledge, and prior experience, the senior who was to distribute work though of giving me the most work while others had limited quantity of work to handle. There were 15 items in the daily deliverables including analysis, reporting , data collection, and presentation. Out of these work items, the other four people got to work on 3 items each while I was made to work on 6 items alone. Initially, I accepted the responsibility thinking that it was an act of encouragement in response to my display of skills and knowledge. However, later on when my senior started to ask me to report more frequently and put pressure on speeding up the work, which I was unable to do because of too many items to work on, I got upset and angry. I had a major argument with the senior. The senior responded by calling me useless and demanded my removal from the demand to his senior.

In my current experience of working on the 3D printing project which involved implementation of new processes, I had worked alone initially but I involved others during the presentation.  This had put the team on pressure as everyone was expected to perform over their capacities during presentation. I realized that while everyone is in pressure, the morale of the team could be down and if there is a communication gap between team members, the delivery of presentation could be challenging. At this point, it is needed that communication is very transparent and the members are open to haring and discussing their work outcomes. In the previous situation mentioned, I could have used the same lesson and instead of quietly accepting major responsibilities, I could have communicated to the senior that I would not be able to handle the work alone at the time of assignment itself. This could have led to some disagreement but it would not  have resulted into a fight and we could have had an agreement on a middle ground where both of us could have been satisfied.

On the 3D project, I also found that I was provided with training before the project was executed based on my existing skills and knowledge that was improved. If I had the right skills that are learned during the current activity, the project could have been executed with much ease as I would be more organized in my approaches to development of the project.