Sunday, October 23, 2011

Decision Making Process

The decision making process on Monday was very tough in class, but after all we did it. During this process I saw people screaming, people that didn’t talk the entire class etc. In my personal experience I was using trying to make agreement that fit everybody so we can achieve together the compromise. During the class I saw people were competing to win trying to put on board what is more convenient for themselves, I saw people laying back and relaxing because of the good grade they had etc. I  think we as a group had a good leader, who was relax and stay calm during the entire process no matter what everyone was screaming about. Personally If I would had been in the leaders position I probably wouldn’t went the same way. So most of our achievement that we had we owe to our leader. Thank you!

Monday, October 3, 2011

The Group Project (Egg Protecter)

As for the planning part in the project our group applied the following steps of the planning process: we defined and understand our goals as a group, we went through step two, we did step four and we had several alternatives for the egg protector and the one we choose was the best. What we did not spend enough time was step three where we didn’t do enough predictions and that led the protector to change pointing direction and the item dropped into the weakest part. Also number five we did not spend enough time too because I think number 3,5 are linked and as we did not predict the drop we did have the need to change our model. I think our team worked together through-out the entire session, but the problem is and always will be the time. We didn’t have enough time to complete the project our more to design our egg protector. The material that we were using was hard to form anything out of straws and paper tape. Overall I think we did a good job working as a team, even though our plan did not accomplish the goal.