We as a team went through not all, but some of the steps in the planning process: step one which is define your goals and objectives, two which is to determine your resources and current status vis-รก-vis objectives and step four which was to make a tactical plan.
Our objective was to create a successful artifact within the time provided and we were looking for the fastest and the most efficient way to do so. We created a list of our goals and specific ways to achieve them. Our final goal was to make a canoe with the straws provided cut them in three parts to somehow make the most of our resources, tape the ends of each piece of straw so the air would stay inside and create a better padding, and put aside enough tape to hold tightly the egg to the canoe without covering it completely, among others. We were fully aware of the resources we had and tried to get the most of them. We also new our weaknesses which were the time constraint and availability of the scissors and our strengths which were that each one of us had a specific task to perform and everyone had the capability to do so; all of us had a role and timing to perform.
I say we passed by step three which is to develop several alternative strategies, although we brainstormed substantially about our different options, how to make our design better, and looked into how to avoid anything that might have gone wrong, we really did not get a straight forward solution to any of our problems, and we always ended up where we started. I also believe that we failed by not looking into each scenario separately.
By the time of the implementation which would be step five, we hardly did what we previously planned. We did construct the canoe but we were somewhat chaotic, we had communication problems during the execution process in the process and did not perform as we anticipated. We wanted to use all of our materials in order to make our canoe more efficient but we ended up with some spare parts, and we just placed them wherever they fitted due that we were all worried about the time limit.
We would have been better as a team if we would have taken each step into consideration; we should have evaluated our choices and found a way to communicate better.
Our objective was to create a successful artifact within the time provided and we were looking for the fastest and the most efficient way to do so. We created a list of our goals and specific ways to achieve them. Our final goal was to make a canoe with the straws provided cut them in three parts to somehow make the most of our resources, tape the ends of each piece of straw so the air would stay inside and create a better padding, and put aside enough tape to hold tightly the egg to the canoe without covering it completely, among others. We were fully aware of the resources we had and tried to get the most of them. We also new our weaknesses which were the time constraint and availability of the scissors and our strengths which were that each one of us had a specific task to perform and everyone had the capability to do so; all of us had a role and timing to perform.
I say we passed by step three which is to develop several alternative strategies, although we brainstormed substantially about our different options, how to make our design better, and looked into how to avoid anything that might have gone wrong, we really did not get a straight forward solution to any of our problems, and we always ended up where we started. I also believe that we failed by not looking into each scenario separately.
By the time of the implementation which would be step five, we hardly did what we previously planned. We did construct the canoe but we were somewhat chaotic, we had communication problems during the execution process in the process and did not perform as we anticipated. We wanted to use all of our materials in order to make our canoe more efficient but we ended up with some spare parts, and we just placed them wherever they fitted due that we were all worried about the time limit.
We would have been better as a team if we would have taken each step into consideration; we should have evaluated our choices and found a way to communicate better.
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Hi Paula,
It is not always easy to follow all of the steps in the planning process. I believe that it is very important to try and work according to the guidelines but, at times our enthusiasim (ideas and how to implement them) and the time constraints that we are required to follow can lead us to skipping a step in the "planning process". I like how you went into detail about your team's strengths and weaknesses.
-Matan
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