Step 1: Define your goals and objectives
I believe my group fully understood the objectives of the egg planning activity. The professor listed the specific steps he wanted us to take and we knew exactly what we had to do to be able to test our invention at the end of the activity.
Step 2: Determine current status compared to objectives
I think we were pretty good in keeping on track with the steps we had to follow. The first step the professor listed was to discuss in a group exactly what and how we were going to go about building a contraption for the egg.
Step 3: Develop premises and several alternative strategies
Here we didn't really come up with several alternatives. We baiscally thought up of one design and just tweaked it. We probably would've done a much better job if we would have come up with several designs but we were so focused on baiscally getting it done within the time constraint that was given to us.
Step 4: Analyze alternatives and make a tactical plan
As stated in step 3 my group just had one design and each one of us incorprated ideas to try and make it work. We didn't really allocate roles, once we were given the supplies each of us just took up something to do whether it was building, or putting the tape on or holding the egg.
Step 5: Implement the plan and evaluate results
Although we only came up with one idea we actually did stick to it and was able to build the contraption as we had planned plus add some more ideas and in the time that was given. But even though we built it, it didn't serve its purpose which was to protect the egg from breaking when we threw it.
My group was able to almost follow through the whole planning process. Thinking back now I think if we would've come up with more ideas and if we would've given each memeber a specific job then our objuective of not breaking the egg would have been achieved. Regardless, I really enjoyed this activity.
I agree with you Denisse. You guys seemed to have had everything in order. I guess pointing out roles and having a leader, does help the company or the project in this case. My team had similar problems too, but it was not so much as too choosing who would do what as it was having more than one plan. Time was limited so we couldent conclude our first idea we went with the backup plan, which backfired. Overall I think we all did a good job, even though none of the groups succeeded.
ReplyDeleteI think that my group had should have done some of the things you believe your group should have done too. I think it would have been very beneficial to have allocated specific tasks to each member before actually receiving the materials. It ended up that the building of the contraption was very hectic and thus we were scrambling to get done and didn't get to stick to our plan. Overall, the communication and planning went well but dividing the tasks became a major problem for us.
ReplyDeleteI totally think many groups that day could say that they hadn't even bothered appointing people roles and others not because time was so limited and that's the last thing any of us were thinking about; who would make a good leader and what they would do as a leader. Perhaps if we had more time, like you said, having each person take on a particular initiative would've definitely helped tremendously. I see that your group also hadn't come up with an alternate design just in case but even though my group did and we ended up switching to the second idea with basically around 1 minute to spare, the outcome would've been the same either way so I doubt it made much of a difference in the end. As so many of us have said, time would've made all the difference because our second design, and maybe even our first, could've worked if we had a little more time to contemplate and build.
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