The first thing that my group did was to let those members who had previous related experience to offer any insight into how we may successfully accomplish the goal that was set for us. Each member offered and example of how to design a contraption that would allow the egg to fall without breaking using out extremely limited resources. In essense we defined what our objective we in an abstract way but basically drawing essentially the same design for the egg cage. We were constantly aware of aour time constraints and worked as efficiently as possible to built a final product while at the same time making the necessary adjustments to the product we were constructing. In terms of trying to figure out future premises that would be included in the development of our egg cage, I would honestly say we completely over-looked that possibility. We had initally a vague idea for "Plan A" and as we progess furthur, our only goal was to make "Plan A". We were so focused on the here and now we completely disregarded "plan B." However, in a situation such as this working an a "plan B" would have been a distraction due to the obvious time constraints. We allowed ourselves to be flexible in our construction instead of delegating specific jobs to individual group members. This allow us to save time that would have been used in the delegation of task and allowed those who had the specific skills needed to design and/or implement to project to come foward and actively be involved in the project.
In conclusion, I would that the reason we were successful in design the egg cage was our group dynamic that was brought out in the planning process. We did not follow and exact guideline for planning a project; we allow ourselves to become flexible in our planning to allow us to accomplish the task presented to us.
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I would say that your team worked very efficiently to build the egg protective device in such a limited time.
What a team!
I think your team members were good at listening to each others while being flexible to any changes possible. I could see that your team worked like "one".
Congratulation to your team's success!
I also agree. Your team sounded very efficient in their planning even if they didn't exactly follow the guideline.
While guidelines are a good indication of which direction you want to go in sometimes they aren't really relevant to the situation at hand, as was the case with this project.
I'm just glad that I was a part of this team and got the five extra points!!!
First of all, drawing the plan was very good idea to plan out, yet we were not provided resources from the professor.
Even though your group did not meet the manage plan b, it was still safe to have a thought of just in case plan. We also had not accomplishable plan b but because of time constraints, could not even try as your group.
Having a flexibility in a group where time and resouce are limited is something other groups would not have. That's something from experiences and confidence.
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