Today was our day to refine our problem. Our question became. How can we bring more groups to the quad? To answer this we came up with a plethora of ideas, some more realistic than others. After creating decision matrices and discussing our ideas, we narrowed down on the idea of making a bocce ball court.
Our group got some time to create a presentation to share the idea in front of a class. This was my team's first time really working together to accomplish something. I came to recognize which group members are more open to sharing their ideas and which ones were quieter. Along with that, their work habits became obvious. As a whole our group dynamic works well. There is only one very quiet person, but he will get a job done when told. Everyone else is extremely engaged and has been able to contribute ideas, listen to others, and build off of ideas.
When it came time to present, we had not really figured out who was saying what. It seemed to work out, though, because as each slide came, group members took over talking when it was about something they took part in. The feed back we got back was all stuff that our group had already realized would be an issue or was something that we had already discussed and decided against. For example, one person suggested we put the bocce court in between gyms, an unused field, instead of on the quad. The team had thought about this before hand a decided that if we did not put it in the quad, it would not address our problem. Other comment we received were about cost, but we were still trying to figure out what materials we wanted to use and that would decide whether our budget was in range. Overall the presentation helped us to finalize some aspects of the bocce ball court so that we can focus on the unknown variables.
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