Mobile Collaboration Tool

The following Guiding Questions will help you start your mobile collaboration project:

1) What is the collaboration context?

o Student / School or o Volunteer / o Professional / Work

University Association or Club

2) How many team members will be collaborating?

o 2-5 o Up to 10 o Up to 20 o More than 20

3) How experienced are the group members with collaboration / project work?

o Unexperienced o Somewhat o Experienced o Very experienced

experienced

4) Will the team be spread across multiple time zones?

o No o Yes o I dont know yet.

5) Do you expect the collaboration to be more

- synchronous (collaboration of team members takes place at the same time) or
- asynchronous (collaboration of team members takes place at different times)?

o Totally synchronous o Mostly synchronous o Mostly asynchronous o Totally asynchronous

6) What will the final outcome of the project be?

o Assignment o Report o Product o Other

7) What are the collaborative tools and devices that the team members are already using?

8) Given the scope, what is the budget for the project?

o None o Limited o Adequate o Generous

9) How sensitive is the data that is being exchanged in the project?

o Not sensitive o Somewhat sensitive o Very sensitive o I am working on a top

secret project to win
the next Nobel Prize
and everything has to
be private and very
secure!

10) What are the milestones and deadlines of the project?