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1) I thought that the team charter was just and assignment. As the teams first official meeting together and project it was an easy way to start to get to know people. This team charter helped us set team goals and gave everyone in the group an idea of what everyone was about. When it came down to the specifics for example rules about people being late, people missing meetings, interruptions, and people being rude we didn't refer back to the charter to see if we should punish the person. If someone could not make it we would just assign him or her a part of the project to do and give it to him or her the next day. For example the team presentations I could not make it to one of the meetings because I had to work and could not get out of it. When I got back on campus that night I checked my e-mail and Nina had e-mailed me what had been done that night and what I was supposed to do for the next meeting. The team gave me a little more work then what everyone else did but I accepted it because I could not be there to do it when it was supposed to be done. Also about interruptions there were plenty of times when everyone interrupted the group at some point, but nobody frowned upon it. There was no need to go back and look at the charter to find out what we were supposed to do in that situation. The charter is neither a good thing nor a bad thing. I just think that since we knew that we would not have to relate back to the charter the whole semester that we could make some nitpicking rules. For example one of our lateness rules. I specifically remember Rich showing up about 10-15 minutes late for one meeting and it was not a big deal, we ...