The object was crystal clear by the professor.
There are limited resources and time. However, one of our member said that she got a great idea and we started making plan shortly.
Luckily, team members were same members as before and we seemed know each other's character well. No arguments. It helped us moving fast.
We were designated each roles for the object clearly and smoothly.
One of us came up with an idea and second member was looking for resources and she brought her staple to the table, in the mean time, third member was writing down a plan and making sure every thing is going o.k. and I was thinking about making name for egg and trying to think of an alternative plan just in case plan A does not work.
The time and resources were given.
We quickly started making support for egg but there was a problem.
We came up with an idea to make the support in too short amount of time and did not think of any other strong alternative idea than the first one. We had several ideas but they were too weak.
We kind of knew that are having a problem and time was still moving to the end so fast.
When we had three minutes left, we could not fix the problem even though we knew something was going wrong.
Team work was great and every member took part in the project in the right time and place but we did not spend long enough time to think of a strong idea. Once we had came up with the first idea we stopped thinking of idea and waited for resources. Once we had resources, we started having plans as we making the egg. It was too late. We should have done making plans before we got resources.
I would think that this project would require a strong idea and team work. Because of limited time, there's not enough time to practice to making support.
Therefore, we had look at what was the priority on this kind of project and based on that should start deliver actions step by step instead of making new plans as we implementing. The result was obvious.
however, it was a very exciting project and I enjoyed a lot as well.
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Even though time and resources were limited, I think that your time made the best of what could be done in such a limited situation. You will probably find that when you are placed in similar situations more frequently in the business world, you and your teammates will most likely get better at planning and coordinating amongst yourselves. Practice makes perfect and as you progress into the future you planning abilities may become as natural as breathing.
I agree with Pierre in the fact that in the business world when a situation such as this comes about, you will find that the more often you do these things it will come more naturally. It was great that your group had known each other already (as was the case with most groups). It definitely helps to know peoples' personalities in group work. It avoids confrontations and helps manage time better because you can assign positions to people based on their knowledge of the topic. Someone that has previous experience in engineering would make a better designer than someone without this experience. It was a fun project though.
From your blog post, I see that your team had a lot of potential. The group members all knew each other, the teamwork was fluent, and many ideas were brought up. The only problem with this group was timing; ideas were brought up too late, and the time given for the assignment was too short. In other words, your team did everything correctly, but the lack of experince prevented your from reaching its goal. This means that in the future, you and your team members will have no problem dealing with similar situations, because you already have the ability, and all you need is to practice a little more.
I thought our team have tired. I couldn't say we have tried our best, because there are just so much more to improve, but I would say we have tried hard!! I thought the activity was interesting and I had a lot of fun during the whole process. If we had a longer time to plan or knew the topic before hand, I believe we will do much much better. But hey, at least we've tried. I'm hoping that we will have more similar activities in the future, it makes the class so much more interesting!
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