Imagine you are the human resources administrative assistant for a large dairy factory and you are assigned to work as a team with others from different departments on a project that involves creating a new line of dairy$-$free products for customers with dietary restrictions.

$1.$ Explain the group project in one paragraph of no more than five sentences.

$2.$ Analyze the development of the project team in terms of:

$-$The Five$-$Phase Model

$-$The Punctuated Equilibrium Model

$3.$ Describe which of these two models does the best job of describing your team's evolution and why.

$4.$ Analyze the development of the project team in terms of the nine situational factors that influence team development.

$-$What factors positively contributed to group performance?

$-$What factors negatively contributed to group performance?

$-$How did the group try to overcome the negative factors?

$-$What could you have done differently?

$5.$ If the group was formed again, what specific recommendations would you make about how the group should manage meetings?