Monday, March 3, 2008
The Planning problem in the egg experiment
I felt that my group did a pretty good job defining our goals for the task at hand. We knew what we needed to do and created a design that should solved the problem. However when it came to step two we did not do such a good job. We have not asked for team members strenths when decide who will do what once the 10 minute time limit starts. I believe that this might have been our weakness as a team. We also did not design any alternatives to our plan. We felt confident that if executed we would have succeded in our task. We did however design a tactical plan. We created a design that would have held up if the execution stage would have went nicely. Step five is where the biggest problems came in. When it came time to execute the plan, people started diverting from the original plan and this created total chaos. The time limit played a big role in our inability as a team to finish the task. We did terrible in our lack of progress achieving the plan. I think we could have done better if we stuck to the plan and better designate people's involvment in the plan. We definetly needed an alternative plan that was simpler and faster to do.
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Hi there.... but even if you had an alternative plan you would not have the time to complete it. I believe that you all had to stick together to the original plan.... like that if you we are more into that plan and knowing that that was it you would maybe have put more effort in succeeding..... On our team too we were thinking that we should make changes, but we decided that that was the plan that we have originally decided and that we had to stick with it, because basically we had no time and that would mest up everything up.....anyway I am wishing you good luck with the rest of the semester!!!I
Our group lost time to discuss and compare 4 alternatives. each of us insited on our own plan at the begining.
i agree that it was your weekness not to have an alternative plan to the experiment, managers should always be prepared for the worst and hope for the best, but in this exersise i dont think it would help you team because of the short amount of time we had recieved, so in this case there was nothing you could possibly do to fix the problem, and execute the experiment in proper way
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