Planning 101

I thought that the. Egg-Cellent exercise was a good example of how businesses create and implement plans that are useful to the organization. My group decided to name our egg, Chicken little. We first thought of what was trying to be accomplished. We were trying to create an contraption that would hold our egg secure enough to be dropped without a crack. We each offered our ideas and surprisingly we all had a similar idea of how we wanted the contraption to look. We then decided to document what we had thought up, so we could take a visual look at it and determine if it was feasible for a design like this to secure an egg in a 10 feet drop.. We did make some minor adjustments to what we created once we took a look of it on paper. At that point it looked as if we had the 5 points extra in the bag. I think one thing that we forgot was a contingency plan, but I am not sure how useful that would have been since we did not have the opportunity to try it out. Everyone had a specific task once it was time to create the egg bed. We assigned an egg holder, a tape holder, time keeper and the person responsible for dropping the egg. Once it was time to start build, everything went pretty smoothly and we actually had some time left on the clock. Seeing that we had some time left, we should have probably used that to evaluate the design. But we were very confident in our creation so we decided to go forward with the original plan. Unfortunately, our plan did not work and we did not get the five points. The exercise taught me how important it is to first make a plan by setting your objective, finding solutions, implementing your plan and how very important it is to evaluate your results and make necessary correction. I look forward to more exercises like Egg-cellent.