Reflection of assignment

Building a racing car

Members-Noshen, Fahreen, Jackson & Jessy

Time given- 50 minutes

Assignment-we had to build a car which a run faster than the opponent car. It was also about negotiation.

1)        How well did each member contribute and how? (All names including myself).

Explanation:- Each member of the group tried to work together and negotiate with other groups. All the group members tried to accomplish their won job properly. Every member was assigned with a specific job and most of the job was accomplished properly.

Name	Job assigned
Noshen	Builder and planner
Jackson	Manager and parts collector
Fahreen	Time management
Jessy	Main builder

Jackson:- Jackson was the manager of the group. His main job was to find the parts that we need for building our car with as low price as possible. He also had to sell the part that we didn’t need. He contributed well in his job but sometimes he wasted some money buying parts that we didn’t need.

Fahreen:- Fahreen was the time management person in our group. She distributed the time into four sections.

Planning(5min)       Building(30min)    Testing(10min)    Emergency(5min)

Our plan was to follow the plan and finish the task by the routine time. Fahreen kept reminding the group members about the time and tried to make sure that everything is finished by the time. But unfortunately after we started building, we wasted most of our time for negotiating and changing our plan. That is why our team had less time for building. But we still handed in our assignment by the due time.

Noshen:- I was a builder and also the planner. I planned the design of the car and as we started building we had to change certain parts of the plan. Everybody in the group had some ideas about the car and when we also had change some plans because we could not some parts we wanted to use. I also helped for negotiating with other groups and tried to make some good deals.

Jessy:- Jessy was the main builder of our team. She tried her best make it work. She was very calm and used the time properly. Although we got stuck for setting the engine in the proper way. She tried her best till the last minute to build it proper but we couldn’t make it.

2)            Why you won or lost?

Explanation:- Our group had not a good structure. That was the main reason for us to lose. We took long time for coming up with an idea and when we had and when we finally started building we had to change a lot of parts from our plan. Another reason was we focused more in negotiating than building. We should have focused more in building the car from the beginning of the task and work more co operatively with the group.

3)                         What can you improve?

Explanation:- There was a lot of improvement that are needed for our group. The first step that we should take is to be more focused on building than negotiating. We also have to ask our group members before selling or buying any parts. So, that we wouldn't have wasted our money on buying something that we don’t need. We have to more punctual, organized and co operative with our group members to be able to success in any assignment.

   4)             Principles of negotiation.

Explanation:- For being successful in negotiating, we have to follow the principles of negotiation. They are-

·         Defining what we need for a certain job. ( In this project we defined what we need for building our car before we started buying anything)

·         Understanding your own budget and target’s motivation. (Our plan was not to waste too much money for any product and we also tried to sell the parts we didn’t need.)

·         Create a relationship. (Whenever we sold something to any other group we tried to be very nice and welcoming to them so, they come back to us for making more deals and we also tried to have a good relationship with the people from whom we bought some parts)