“Team” Collaborative Assignment – Week 3

Stacey Troup

QNT/275

September 12, 2015

Dr. Juritsa Ford

Team Collaborative Assignment – Week 3

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This Week three paper is my response to a problem posted by a team member and how

statistics can be used to solve simple problems in everyday life. Three of six team members

participated in the discussion with the remainder of the team being missing. This paper was

written based on available responses from the partial team. My title of this paper puts team in

quotations because I don’t believe I am actually part of one, and that is sad.

Electronic Warehousing

Team member Monique Holmes proposed the problem of switching to an electronic

warehousing system to assist with her purchasing duties at her job in Week two. While there

was a response regarding the effective use of electronic inventory systems, I proposed problems

with the wireless systems and advised of bug fix times which could possibly hinder production.

No response was received to this problem by the team. Discussions would have been had to help

determine down time effect on productivity and job performance. Unfortunately, this discussion

was never had due to lack of input.

What we are witnessing as a team is just a simple one line problem and not utilizing the

conditional probability lesson contained in the weekly learning. Had this been included in

discussions with the team, alternative theories could have been raised such as the technology

down time experienced before true success rates in the high nineties. Having come from a place

that switched to electronic warehousing, I know first hand how statistics could have been used to

actually help solve these problems and create a better environment with as little downtime as

possible.

Team Collaborative Assignment – Week 3

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New warehouse wirless systems have things like bugs, downtime, learning curves,

connectivity issues (due to the medal in the warehouses) and equipment failure which hinder true

success of the system.

Even though I have first hand knowledge of these conditional probabilities which could

result from the implementation of a new wireless system, the team did not want to hear from me

so I abstained from comments for the most part.

Conclusion

While the team tried to collaborate this week, they fell short in responding to each

problem as instructed. I posted alternative theories and problems which used the lessons of the

week but, once again, my posts were ignored by the team and instead of viable discussions

regarding how statistics could solve the problems at hand, it was more like two people having a

conversation about how one loves what the other posts.

A team environment should be condusive for feedback for all, participation according to

the guidelines and feedback on each problem to aide in the learning process. This team

continues to ignore everyone but the two other people talking and excludes everyone around

them.

Sorry to say but no solutions could be discussed in class this week due to the lack of

discussions which were supposed to happen.