• The words “group project” fill my heart with a deep sadness.
• One person always ends up doing all the work.
• One person always tries to take charge and steer things in a strange new direction.
• One person cares way too much and it’s frightening.
• At least one person doesn’t care AT ALL.
• There’s always a passive aggressive email chain from hell.
• Trying to schedule a time to meet is a nightmare.
• Group projects make me want to cause mental or physical harm to all the other group members.

• Poor and disparate communication
• Lack of visibility of what others are doing
• Limited time availability
• Disparate skills

• Break up work into small chunks that can be carried out independently (Agile style)
• Recognize team's needs:
  • Working with code collaboratively
  • Project management
  • Educational objectives of assignment
• Rely on collaboration tools for:
  • Code Management: Github
  • Project management and communication: Trello
• Yes, if it was just you, the work would get done in much less

Week 1:

• Have a collaboration baseline in place
• Have a "development environment" that consists of:
  • Database server housing data source and model
  • Basic scripts/API that illustrates how to connect to data source
  • Tidied up data source

Week 2:

• Complete submission sections:
  • Data source
  • Descriptive statistics
  • Data visualization
  • Data modeling
• Prepare for presentation
• Polish submission