Our egg planning turn out to be a failure, however, our group are really having fun during the planning progress. When I and Jia first heard the topic about the egg's planning, Jia's first response was like "What?" and my response is "it sounds like physic!" Due to the fact that we have to actually build somethings with limited materials to protect the egg from breaking when we drop it off from approximately 10 feet talls, it likes those kind of physic concepts that I have learned in high school.
After heard the explanation, guidline and materials that we had, we know that our goal is to use limited resources to build somethings protect the egg from breaking when dropping from 10 feets tall. Each one of our group already have their own idea of how to build the design. We all explain our ideas to each other and try to persuade the other group member to accept their own idea. However, after 25 minutes of discussing, we still can't agree on the same method.
And after that 25minutes, we only left with 10 minutes to build the egg. Therefore, we all just play around with the materials and we finally comes up with the idea of surronds the egg by making some triangle shapes using the straws. We tape the egg with those triangle shapes. When the 10 minutes times up, we barely finish taping the egg with those triangle shapes. We don't even have time to evaluate whether or not the egg is 100% protected by the triangle shape.
When our group are waiting to drop the egg, I personally don't have much confidence for our planning due to the fact that we didn't come up with an idea that we all agree. We just randomly try out this idea for our planning, therefore, I didn't have much confidence about our plan. And finally when is our group's turn, we all hope that our plan is gona to work due to the fact that it will help us increase 5 points in our exam. However, our plan turns out to be failure due to the fact that we didn't aim in the bucket. Our egg just hit the bucket and it break. I really want to know whether our egg will actually survive if we aim the bucket right. However, I didn't feel very upset about failure due to the fact that I personally don't have much confidence about it.
I think that our planning turns out to be failure because we didn't follow all of the 5 steps in the planning process. I think our team did a pretty good job of following the first 3 steps in the planning process. We all know our goals and requirements. We understand that we only allow to have 8 straws and few meters of tapes and 1 egg. We come up with different ideas for the planning. However, we didn't chose a tactic plan which is the fourth step of the planning process. We just didn't agree on the same idea and we just randomly chose one idea. Also, we didn't assign the task efficiently to our group member. Therefore, we just barely finish our plan within the time frame. Also, I think that our group skip the 5th step in the planning process which is to implent the plan and evaluate the result. Since we didn't assign the task to each group member efficently, we left with no time to evaluate the outcome for our plan. Therefore, we wouldn't be able to make any corrective action for our plan and revise the plan if necessary.
After this in-class activity, I realize that the success and failure of a plan really depends a lot of your planning process. If you have a really good planning, your plan will mostly likely to success than having a poor planning. Therefore, next time, when we have another chance to do similar class activity like this, our group will sure to have a better planning!
After heard the explanation, guidline and materials that we had, we know that our goal is to use limited resources to build somethings protect the egg from breaking when dropping from 10 feets tall. Each one of our group already have their own idea of how to build the design. We all explain our ideas to each other and try to persuade the other group member to accept their own idea. However, after 25 minutes of discussing, we still can't agree on the same method.
And after that 25minutes, we only left with 10 minutes to build the egg. Therefore, we all just play around with the materials and we finally comes up with the idea of surronds the egg by making some triangle shapes using the straws. We tape the egg with those triangle shapes. When the 10 minutes times up, we barely finish taping the egg with those triangle shapes. We don't even have time to evaluate whether or not the egg is 100% protected by the triangle shape.
When our group are waiting to drop the egg, I personally don't have much confidence for our planning due to the fact that we didn't come up with an idea that we all agree. We just randomly try out this idea for our planning, therefore, I didn't have much confidence about our plan. And finally when is our group's turn, we all hope that our plan is gona to work due to the fact that it will help us increase 5 points in our exam. However, our plan turns out to be failure due to the fact that we didn't aim in the bucket. Our egg just hit the bucket and it break. I really want to know whether our egg will actually survive if we aim the bucket right. However, I didn't feel very upset about failure due to the fact that I personally don't have much confidence about it.
I think that our planning turns out to be failure because we didn't follow all of the 5 steps in the planning process. I think our team did a pretty good job of following the first 3 steps in the planning process. We all know our goals and requirements. We understand that we only allow to have 8 straws and few meters of tapes and 1 egg. We come up with different ideas for the planning. However, we didn't chose a tactic plan which is the fourth step of the planning process. We just didn't agree on the same idea and we just randomly chose one idea. Also, we didn't assign the task efficiently to our group member. Therefore, we just barely finish our plan within the time frame. Also, I think that our group skip the 5th step in the planning process which is to implent the plan and evaluate the result. Since we didn't assign the task to each group member efficently, we left with no time to evaluate the outcome for our plan. Therefore, we wouldn't be able to make any corrective action for our plan and revise the plan if necessary.
After this in-class activity, I realize that the success and failure of a plan really depends a lot of your planning process. If you have a really good planning, your plan will mostly likely to success than having a poor planning. Therefore, next time, when we have another chance to do similar class activity like this, our group will sure to have a better planning!
3 comments:
Hey, sorry to hear about your egg :(
I think this is where the importance of management and leaders comes in. If someone had taken charge and organized everyone's ideas maybe your would of had a better experience. Also what I would recommend for you is that if you find yourself in a similar situation, take advantage of it! You made it this far in college so you know you are smart enough to just take charge. You don't have to be the loudest or the bossiest, but just by repeating what each person says and saying OK lets try a combined approach, you most likely will gain the groups attention. from there use what you learned so far to organize a team.
Hi Bonnie,
I agree with you! When I first heard about the activity, I was like "What?" either. ;)
I think sometimes it's really hard to agree on other's plan, but if you had a leader, then it would be easier. Or, maybe you could have a little election on which would be the best for your time ;). Even though the planning process did not work well this time, I believe your team would do better next time!
Hi!
It's to bad both our eggs cracked. Just like your group, we had a plan during the 25 minutes but during the 10 minute building time we changed our whole entire plan. We almost did not have enough time to finish building the egg. I was hoping so hard for my egg not to break but at the end it did. Don't worry next time both our teams will do a good job! =D
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