Teams and Collaboration

Teams, and how they work together, are important when solving complex design problems because they bring together diverse perspectives, skills, and expertise. Complex problems often have multiple layers, requiring knowledge from different fields to fully understand and address them. For example, a moving and handling task might need additional input from psychologists, doctors, equipment specialists, engineers, designers, and patients to ensure all aspects are considered. Each team member can contribute unique insights, leading to more innovative and comprehensive solutions. Collaboration across disciplines also helps anticipate challenges from different angles, making the design process more adaptable and effective (some notes on team formation).

In Movementor there are two types of team members - the lead assessor and the co-assessors - and this team collaborates through tools such as the comments and tasks.

Lead Assessor

The lead assessor acts as the chair of the team and is the only person who can edit the key views. The Lead assessor is also the person who invites other individuals to join the team as co-assessors.

Co-assessors

These are the wider team working with the Lead Assessor to develop a successful handling plan. Their main interaction with the handling plan is through the comments feature.

Comments

On every handling plan record view, there is the ability to add comments. These allow the whole team to discuss and agree on decisions and act as a record of clinical reasoning. When beginning to develop the handling plan ready for implementation the team can search through past comments to follow lines of reasoning that arose during the previous phases of the handling plan assessment.

Tasks

There are two types of tasks - assessment tasks and implementation tasks. With the assessment tasks, the team can decide what needs to be done to progress the team’s handling plan assessment and even assign these tasks to team members. The implementation tasks perform a similar function but are used once the handling plan is being developed and are there to help the team deliver the handling plan in the real world.