Learning Targets
- Create team norms that support productive engineering work.
- Identify project roles, milestones, and deadlines.
- Plan how the team will track progress, risks, and accountability.
IED Unit 5 • Lesson 5.4
Team Norms and Project Management
Focus question: How do engineering teams organize their work so they can complete a complex design project successfully?
Your lesson guide
Objective
Create team norms that support productive engineering work. Identify project roles, milestones, and deadlines. Plan how the team will track progress, risks, and accountability.
Materials
For the online work: a browser and your engineering notebook. Follow the activity’s materials list for any physical build, and get teacher approval before using equipment.
Plan your time
Suggested work block: 45–60 minutes. Physical builds and projects may span several classes; follow your teacher’s schedule.
Mission Briefing
Today’s Plan
Use this page with the lesson presentation, your engineering notebook, and the tools or evidence assigned for Build the Team Project Plan.
Success Looks Like
You can define team norms, roles, milestones, risks, and accountability for a capstone project.
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Opening Prompt
How do engineering teams organize their work so they can complete a complex design project successfully?
Connect your response to the decision, evidence, or quality standard required for Build the Team Project Plan.
Reveal: useful engineering move
This lesson is ready to move forward when the evidence meets this standard: Every major task has an owner and the plan can be updated as evidence changes.
Core Skill
What We Are Practicing
Engineering teams need clear expectations, not just good intentions.
Project management helps teams turn large work into visible steps.
Accountability protects quality, fairness, and project momentum.
Your Task
Build the Team Project Plan
Establish team norms, roles, milestones, and a visible management system for completing the capstone.
- Agree on communication and decision-making norms.
- Assign initial roles and responsibilities.
- Break the project into milestones and due dates.
- Record risks, dependencies, and the next checkpoint.
Quality check: Every major task has an owner and the plan can be updated as evidence changes.
Lesson Interactive
Sequence a Team Project Plan
Move the project-management steps into an order that gives the team clear ownership, deadlines, and opportunities to adjust.
- Create a schedule with milestones and dependencies
- Define the project scope and required evidence
- Adjust assignments or timing using checkpoint evidence
- Assign responsibilities and decision ownership
- Review progress at a planned checkpoint
Planning rule
Define the work before assigning it. Schedule checkpoints early enough that the team can still respond to problems.
Use the arrows to place the five steps in a logical project-management sequence.
What You Will Submit
Team Management Plan
Submission standard: Every major task has an owner and the plan can be updated as evidence changes.
Resources
Lesson Resources
Lesson 5.4 PowerPoint
Use the lesson slides for guided practice, interactive checks, and the exit ticket.
Introduction to Engineering Design
Return to the IED course hub for units, resources, certifications, and current course information.
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Checkpoint: is your evidence ready?
- Check calculations, units, labels, and measurements against the activity requirements.
- Record what actually happened, including unexpected results.
- Explain what you changed and why; attach required drawings, photos, CAD, or code in your classroom assignment.
Submit the evidence specified in the activity and your classroom assignment. The report below collects your notes, calculations, observations, and reflections; attach any required drawings, photos, CAD, or code separately.
A PDF download is not a submission. Review it, then upload it and any required attachments through your classroom assignment system.