The "Unbreakable" Egg

Managers from all different industries must follow certain steps to plan, execute, and achieve goals. The egg project reinforced these steps in a hands on way to demonstrate how much really has to go into the planning process. Not only did we have to plan on how we were going to build our egg devices, but we were forced to manage our time in and work in an efficient way. Our groups objective was to create a device that would hold the egg and keep it intact upon impact. We planned to use all of the materials given while adhering to the rules and regulations of the game. We came up with a couple of ideas and decided on which one we thought would work the best. After coming up with a general plan, we developed more backup plans just in case our original idea did not work out as we expected. We tried to plan out where each of the materials would go to help utilize all of our resources. Since it was the first time working in this group, it was difficult to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each person and bypassed this step. Everyone was able to contribute to the group in one way or  another. We developed different ideas and weighed the pros and cons against each other to come up with what we thought would work the best. We tried to identify what would happen if we put a certain straw somewhere or where would be the best place to put our leftover tape to make the most out of our materials. We seemed to have bypassed the 4th step and just performed as we went along and it seemed to work out well. We were aware of the time and would let the group know how much time we had remaining and went along accordingly sticking to our original plan. As we were near the end we realized that we had leftover materials and found a way to best use the excess tape. When all was said and done, we stuck to our plan and modified as necessary but in the end we ended up with a broken egg.