MGT 3120
Blog topic #2
An Eggs-collent Way to Plan
: Good in the planning, but only not enough results
I think that this activity is for learning the concept of planning process within limited conditions, which are limited time and resources. Overall, even though our team could not reach the good result, which was not breaking egg when we dropped the egg in the class, I had a good experience to have the planning process with other class mates.
I think that we did all process that professor posted on blackboard except ‘step5,” because our assignment did not allow this. Our team members knew the object clearly, and we communicated to reach the goal. We asked each other about ideas to reach the goal. We talked about our idea one by one. Finally, we agreed one design, and we drew the idea on the paper. We made the actual product as our idea. One bad thing was we could not test our idea before we submitted the final project. Even we did not reach the real goal, we have a great time to experience about the planning process. We also had an experience about what kind of problems could be happening during real project in real world. For example, each student could not tell that their idea was the best because they could not test to prove each student’s idea. However, we could conclude one final design that we would build.
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Hey Hey!
This is you Edcc school mate!haha!
I am Sonija, our group was behind your row! I saw your group have a lot of equipment!
Our group wanted to test the idea badly before we really drop our egg too! I agree that this exercise is learning how to plan, but you know what, our group didn't really notice we had to follow the step of planning from the slide, but the result was surprising because we did follow some of the steps!
Anyway, how sad we didn't get our extra credit!
I think you are right. This task was for us to learn or go through the planning process that managers undergo. The important part of this project was not only to keep the egg intact, but also the opportunity to interact with others and listen to their opinions and ideas.
It seems like both of our groups had the same experience. I also thought we did pretty well in our planning up to Step 5. I think implementing a plan, doesn't matter how good the idea is, is the hardest. And there is always either way; you fail, or get ahead of others. In overall, the idea was really good in terms of group planning. Although a lot of people in our class think that the cheating took place (where some groups used straws as extension tool and gently dropped the egg from an inch or two) that would be an another issue of Ethics.
Hi Chun, I like you mentioned "I think that this activity is for learning the concept of planning process within limited conditions, which are limited time and resources." Indeed. In real life this is what we will all have to face. Limited time, limited resources, limited everything. How can we managed to use all these limited condition to have the greatest outcome? Planning then comes in the role. I think most if the student enjoyed the activity and I believe we have all learned something new from that activity.
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