"Egg"nificent Job!

Planning process :

My team decided to begin by planning on how to protect the egg bottoms up. We measured how much material we would use to safeguard the egg, but still meeting guidelines of having 50% of the egg showing. Drawing a sketch was one of the beginning step. We needed a visual of what the safeguard would look like. Knowing what our goal and objective and what are resources were was what helped enable us to know how and where to start. In the resources step which happened during our planning stage we were able to know which role we would all play ( one person would draw, another was more the leader and others just built).
We really didn't think of many ways (tactical alternatives) . What we ended up doing was only deciding from 1 of 2 choices . We were so stuck on those two ways that we really didn't think outside of the box like most of the other teams. Also, being timed also created a sense of urgency which i think clouded our judgment on how to accurately test our creation.
The performance of our team was very good. We had a simple plan and it was something that we tested and it did well. I guess we should have tried to test it at the height we were suppose to drop it from and if there was enough protection over it. Testing different ways also would have helped for better planning.

Being more effective how?

The team could have been more effective if we would have done more thorough planning after we saw that our plan was not coming along as well as we had hoped for.. Should have had a couple of other ideas or alternative plans in case it didn't go well. Asking questions about plans that we thought of but did not know if it would be within guidelines. Being a little more open minded and thinking outside the box never hurt anyone, so we should have tried it. For next time happy planning and try to think of the unthinkable.