General Studies · Group Dynamics

A company has established a project team to design a new information system. The team has had a few meetings to discuss how they are going to tackle the work and who would do what, but some early ideas have been unsuccessful. Group members are still putting forward a number of very innovative ideas, but they often disagree strongly with each other. The group members appear to be dividing into 'two camps', each of which has an unofficial leader. These two individuals agree about very little and appear to dislike each other. According to Tuckman's stages of group development, which stage has the project team reached?