Team Lead

What is a Team Lead

This is the leader of the team. They are the guiding hand of the project. Every team must have exactly one leader.

Electing

A team lead is elected by a team by a simple majority (50%). Voting does not necessarily need to be formal, but every team member should know who their team lead is.

If a majority (at least 60%) of team members feel like someone else would be a better leader, they may choose to replace the leader. This can also occur when team leader leaves.

Powers

These are the main powers a team lead has:

• Decides overall vision of the game
• Decides what tasks are needed
• Determines what roles are needed
• Delegate specific tasks to people
• Has tie breaking vote

Why: these powers?

Leading a team is hard, so leaders are empowered to make executive decisions to make sure the project gets completed.

Responsibilities

“With great power comes great responsibility”

-Uncle Ben from Spider-Man

Here is what a team leader is responsible for:

• Make sure project is in scope
• Make sure people have tasks to work on
• Make sure team admistrative items are done properly:
  • Complete team registration
  • Create and maintain team page on Discord
  • Organize meetings
  • Rotate introduction giving volunteer role
  • Ensure submission forms are submitted at the end
  • Ensure assets are properly uploaded
  • Ensure game page and builds are correct

Why: these responsibilities?

We are a volunteer group, so leader should try to make sure the project is achievable by the team.

Also, admistrative items must be done to participate within P1’s Ignite cycle.

Difference with Producer Role

There is a lot of overlap between team lead and producer. However, any role may choose to be a team lead.

The main difference is in scope: a team lead manages the overall vision of the project, while a producer focuses more on the actual details (e.g., tasks, what is completed, meetings). Team lead may choose to lead certain meeting, while leaving other meetings for producers.