I am glad that my group, consisting of Jacinta, Nazyra and I, managed to pull through this project despite the delayed start. In fact, I feel that we utilised the the little time we had left well. This project is one of the most time-consuming projects that I have done and I am sure we could have done better if we started early.
I find that this group is the easiest team I have ever worked with (I hope I am not the only one who feels this way haha). The possible reasons could be the small number of members, which made it easy for the group to come to any decision. Another possible reason could be how often we meet for class, which help us to touch base and prevent any members from MIA (this happened twice during my past projects). However, I am sure the interpersonal skills we learned in class were applied by the members during our group interactions thus increasing our group cohesiveness.
Besides that, I am sure the others members agree that we had selected a difficult topic. Our proposal is on the management of overcrowding in Singapore Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) and it is an area that none of our members has expertise in. Coming up with proposed solutions also required some technical knowledge which we lacked. We managed to solved this by getting the opinion on the feasibility of our measures through an interview with Dr Lee. Moreover, a lot of measures have been in place thus coming up with a new measure is mind-boggling.
We also almost did not manage to secure an interview, which would be detrimental to our proposal. It was difficult to get an time slot when all members and the interviewee was available. Nevertheless, this problem could have been easily avoided if we had started on our project early. I also feel that we should have done the interview first, followed by the survey. That way, we could have gotten the opinion on a technically feasible solutions versus those that were not feasible.
In summary, I feel that this project demonstrates the importance of having effective interpersonal skills. It is also a real life example where numerous problems could have been avoided if we start early. I also learned that it is important to put in more thoughts in planning which should be done first during the course of the project.
Planning and starting early is always a good way to avoid unnecessary delays and tension. Glad to know your experience was pisitive Nabilah.
ReplyDeleteHello Nabilah! I believe it is not easy to work on such a difficult problem like overcrowding on the MRT, but your team did a really good job on this project. I really like the proposed solutions your team presented, which are quite feasible in Singapore context. Well done! (:
ReplyDeleteI am glad that you have such easy to get along with team members in your group and I can see the huge team effort put in for your final proposal. That would not have been possible without any of you. Thus, I feel a good teamwork is very important to facilitate the success of any projects.
Despite lacking of knowledge in your project field, I am impressed with you and your team for being able to interview Dr Lee. I agree with you that interview with a more expert in the related field will be of a great importance to measure the feasibility of ideas and solutions and it will definitely give us more insights on the related topic, which will be very beneficial to the project.
That's all! An inspiring proposal anyway! (: