Work Group Project Analysis

The day has all come for us when we get to hear the work group project and they are randomly assigned. These events can both be good or a disaster depending on how the group meshes together. I have experienced recently a group project where I had a hitchhiker of my own to deal with. These people are not fun to deal with and make the project less fun and a lot more stressful. The event happened this summer and the end of the school year. I had agreed to design a balloon satellite project with another person. I knew going into the project that he wasn’t a very hard worker in the classroom but was hopping since it was a lot of hands on work it would change him. I was completely wrong about that thought. I found myself designing the 3D printed shell. Then taking time when I could find it to work on all the guts and wiring inside the box. It started to get frustrated that he would usually never show up and when he did he just watched me do stuff. I began to tell him exact tasks to complete and tried to motivate him to help on steps in building our box. This started to get him more involved and I had less work but then semester ended and I stayed for baseball and he went home. The project still needed work and he just left. I just took it upon myself to finish the building of the box to keep from getting a …show more content…
These can help so that you’re not doing all the work and the group is better weather it is one more person or five. The quicker you attack the problem the faster it can be fixed. Another take away was that you can’t be scared to not make someone happy from hearing the truth. It is always having a good work group but if you have to confront them you know they will be mad so I need to not care about keeping them happy so I’m not doing more work. This paper was very helpful and gave me good ways to handle a hitchhiker or couch potato down the