Blog Topic 2: Planning

I think that the activity involving the egg was a very interesting way to work as a team. I think that because the task seemed very difficult and almost impossible to achieve- we maybe were slightly frazzled and may have skipped over some of the steps in the planning process. I think that our goal was already defined, and we didn’t really need to do that. As far as understanding deadlines- we kept close track of time. I don’t think that the planning and implementation of our egg saving device went as smoothly as it could have. Everyone has different ideas and opinions and there was some tension regarding differences in our group. As far as alternative strategies, there was about 3 different ideas as to what to do, but we went with the one that most people agreed on. After drawing a design for the egg, we then tried to build it. We ran into some trouble actually producing the design. However, we finally finished. Unfortunately, we were not able to implement our plan. We accidently cracked the egg before we were able to participate by dropping them from the table. I think that a way we could have been more effective as a group would have been to take votes, rather than just trying to push our point of view ahead. Maybe by agreeing that we would all follow majority rules vote, we could have avoided some of the tension. We also should have spent more time actually trying to build different designs rather than just saying that the other person’s would not work.