| Reflection: |
Organizing seemed to be most important to the class in terms of this
project, but many things were done that were not necessary. For example,
the few leaders that had emerged set up a formal campus club. These leaders
had also promoted a president to that club who had final decision-making
power. Although there was logic to this way of handling things, everybody
else in the class was left out of a lot of decisions. Each individual group
also had little knowledge of what was happening in the other development
groups. The group organizers left little room for flexibility between the
groups and organization became a bigger and bigger issue when development
should have been the focus. It was a good experience demonstrating how a
large group can lose control of a project because of poor communication.
I understand that the time constraints led to much of the red-tape that
also comes along with a real-world projects, but that also could have been
eliminated. |