Group Therapy: a group project survival guide

Agendas, deadlines, and taking notes will definitely get you started on the right path to successful group work, but there's one essential thing: you have to elect a project manager.

You need someone to be the Mayor of GroupWorkVille. It really helps to have someone responsible for keeping everything organized and moving forward. As you know, in a ten-week term,  a little slacking now can create an impossible  emergency later!

This sounds like a totally thankless job, right? Your group can negotiate the work involved in the entire project to make being the project manger more enticing, for example, your group's PM may get a smaller writing section or an easier section of the project.