Decision Making

I didn't say much of anything, nor did I help with the decision process. I was the little asian girl in the corner of the room that screeched "SHUT UP!" when things got rowdy. I wouldn't consider this avoidance though. I thought it was neccessary for the majority of the group to be quiet and attentive at any one moment for decisions to happen. I was happy to help out by reminding the people that emerged as semi leaders to stewfoo [stfu] :). I wouldn't have gone about this any other way and feel that even after knowing the end result [which I think was excellent], I participated in my most helpful way.

Eggtastrophy!

Of the five steps in the planning process, I felt that my team really only followed two [Step 1. Define your goals and objectives, Step 5. Implement the plan and evaluate results] and bits of others [Step 2. Determine your resources and current status vis-á-vis objectives, Step 4. Make a tactical plan]. We forewent Step 3 [Develop several alternative strategies] and instead went with the second idea, which sounded much more convincing than the first. This may have been the deciding factor of Billy's fate.

As a team, we understood the objectives and the time limit, and we managed to get everything done before the time expired, especially the planning part. We ended up having to revise the plan at the last second due to overtaping. This was foreseen by some group members but was ignored to the demise of Billy. However, we did not allocate our time properly because we rushed the procedure during implementation towards the end.

We did not assess the individuality of our group members. We had no idea what our strengths and weaknesses were. The extra time we had after the planning process was over could have been used before the planning [wince] to avoid this catastrophic oversight. Another one of our minimishaps included not breaking down our time and our roles in the implementation stage. This is unfortunate because we had plenty of time to do so during the planning stage. It ended up so that the person who invented our egg-traption did most of the implementation with me standing about, holding the tape. -_-

I feel that we could have done better after all but the project was fun and our ultimate performance was grand, considering the gaps in our planning process. ....not that we got the five points ;-)

Shout out to my team members! It was a blast!

xoxoEllenxoxo