Topic #2 An Eggs-cellent Way to Plan

The planning skill is very important skill for all managers to achieve companies'  goals. This egg project tells us how should we plan and solve the problem we faced on.

At the very beginning of this project, many other team started to write down about the members' name, who is the leader etc. However, we did not do that at that time because we do not want to spend a lot of times to create the required sheet. We defined our goals and objectives as soon as possible. Therefore, I think our team went through Step 1.

In the Step 2, we proposed the idea of egg-protection as many as possible we can. We did not determine our current status, all of us just thought about how we protect the egg. We did not care much about the individual's favor and weaknesses because the group was just created 5 min before! Moreover, our team did not choose the leader to spend more time to think about the structure, so our argument sometimes messed up. However, we really wanted to make it because of the extra points, so we listened other opinion very carefully to determine which idea is the best. I think we went thorough some of Step 2, but acutually we did not really mention about it.

In the Step 3, we bypassed to develop alternative strategies. I think we had a lot of ideas form all of members' and we talked a lot about which is the best idea to protect the egg, and we believed it will be successful in the end of the class. To avoid the accidents, we spend more time to develop the structure and how we create the protection instead of to develop alternative strategies. Of course we talked about other idea a bit, but we mainly talked about the main idea. I think even we think about other idea, we do not have much time to develop both the main and alternative strategies at the same time because time was limited and very short. Therefore, we almost bypassed whole of Step 3.

In the Step 4. we talk a lot how we develop the main idea, so we do not need spend much time to choose the action alternative. However, we were absorbed in developing the structure, so we did not talk about the roles of when we create the protection. Also we did not think about the size of a egg and the straw, so we would go further without knowing about the very important information  about the materials. This two mistakes lead us to wrong way in the Step 5.

In the Step 5, we just have 10 min to create the protection. However, our team did not decide the role of each member, so when we created the protection, we were really confused and had less communication. Our plan was totally crush and we finished to make the protection 10 sec before the time limit. It was totally different what we expected, and finally egg broke.

I think we can do much better if we set the role for each individuals to make the things clear. We only thought how to make it more strong, not mention about the personal ability or skills.
If we chose the leader and set the role for each person, we might make it and get extra points...