Eggin' the basket. And by basket, I mean the garbage bin.

My group was called "Eggin' the basket" because our idea was to wrap half of the egg and then add a  final loop creating a "basket" for our egg.

What led to our final design was the fact that if you squeezed an egg from the tips, it will not break, so we thought that if we created a heavy bottom, it would fall on its end and still be in one piece.  So based on this, we wrapped the straws on the bottom of the egg so that it would be heavier on the bottom and would straight down.  Or so we thought.

Let's see what went wrong with our Planning Process.

Step 1: Defining Goals & Objectives

I think we achieved this.  We wrote down our objective--to keep the egg from breaking and to do so without breaking any of the rules (drafting a design within 10 minutes, covering less than half of the egg etc.)

Step 2: Evaluating resources- identify skills/weaknesses

I think we were overconfident with our plan that we neglected to see the weaknesses to our plans.  Yes, it is true that if you squeeze an egg from both ends, it will be difficult to break.  However, I don't think its impossible to crack it provided that there is enough pressure.  What's more is that half of our egg is exposed and that our egg might not have fallen straight.  It could have tipped over (I think it did actually).  

Step 3:Developing alternative strategies

Like I said, we were too focused on this one plan that we were confident that we would succeed.  Even though one teammate objected to this plan, we as a group decided to stick to it because we had already come so far with the idea.  That teammate didn't exactly offer an alternative idea though; he was just skeptical of our plan. 

Step 4: Creating a tactical plan-what actions were made?

We decided that one person (the group member with the original idea) will mainly be in charge of creating the device for our egg so that it would be handled carefully.  The rest of us helped out in creating the "basket".  Because there were flaws with our idea to begin with, no course of action could have saved our egg.  However, I feel that the actions we took to execute our plans were as good as we expected.  We were able to build the device on time, had excess tape & straws, and it appeared as we had envisioned it to be.

Step 5: Implementing the plan, Measuring progress, revising the plan.   

After we saw so many groups fail, we were pretty certain that our plan would fail too.  Of course, at that point, we couldn't make any changes.  But I think many groups had the similar idea that the straws would provide a cushion for the egg but apparently this was not that case.  

To sum up our planning progress, I feel we did a good job in creating a plan and executing it but we lacked back up plans & alternative ideas.  What we could have done differently was consider everyone's opinions/ideas and reason with each other which would be the best thing to do rather than just agreeing with the majority.