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-รก-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
Yeah I think this was a fun activity. There were many people in each group for this activity so it's hard to give everyone roles. Some of the people won't as active as others. i think we needed one person just to hold the egg so it doesn't drop on the floor or roll of the table and crack.
ReplyDeleteI think everyone had trouble assigning roles, since there was only one egg but so many hands, if everyone was working on it, the egg would probably become a hard boiled egg by the time we finished. Haha anyway..., its okay, my group had trouble with communicating, and even though we succeeded in preventing the egg from breaking, we failed at the planning process. Which was the key of the whole project.
ReplyDeletelol, u defined what happened perfectly...
ReplyDeleteRIP BILLY!
I had similar problem assigning roles when there is lack of leadership in the past, but for this activity, most of my teammates were very helpful that they volunteered to different roles. The reason for that is all of them wanted the extra credit. That was a very good motivation in our team. may be you can remain your team next time so they will volunteer to do what they think they do best instead of forcing task to the wrong person.
ReplyDeletethat was a fun experiment... I hope the rest are that interesting.
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