Question

What is an advantage and a disadvantage to work together as a multidisciplinary team on a project?

Answer 1

Advantage

• Bringing together so many people with different skills can lead to many more ideas being generated, new methods being developed, and more creative and original designs being produced.

Disadvantage

• However, the downfall to this is cost. Also, the more people there are with different backgrounds in a design team, the more difficult it can be to communicate and progress forward the designs being generated. 
• Confusion, misunderstanding, and communication breakdowns can often surface in a team. The various team members may have different ways of talking about design and may use the same terms to mean quite different things if working with people that are all from different areas of expertise in their career.