Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Eggs-cellent failure
So our egg drop came out kind of scrambled. Step 1 was pretty good. Our group knew what we had to do and we allocated time to each part of the project from drawing to the planning of the eggs' encasement. Step 2 was also good. We saw the materials we had to work with and planned appropriately for how to utilize them. We chose the artist but failed to distinguish weaknesses or strengths among the group because we all felt like we knew what was best. Step 3 was argued about for only a few minutes and then dismissed, as we agreed on one idea for the egg. Step 4 was planned out. We decided who would cut the straws, who would tape the straws together, and how everything was to be executed. Step 5, although we planned it all out, it didn't happen accordingly. Everyone wanted to do every job and we ended up with different size pieces of straw, tape was used everywhere and even though we ended up with a close enough replica of our intended plan it was kind of a mess. We finished our egg holder but gravity had other plans for our oval friend Ed.
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I do not find any problems in our planning. It was good all the way from the first to last step. But, I guess, we had to take a course of physics before we enrolled in this management class.
ReplyDeleteMy group had the same problems. For step 2, we understood the materials we had to work with, but we didn't really assign anyone a specific role. We just all jumped in to design an egg device. Step 3 was where we went wrong. We settled for the first idea that came out. We, actually, added another member in the middle of the planning time who came late to class. He said our idea wasn't going to work out. It's just physics. I started to agree with him, but there was no time to waste, so we went ahead to design our one idea. Oh well. Better luck next time!
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