1. What happened? We had to build a lego robot to accomplish a task (in our case; climb up an obstacle that is a tile covered incline and then drop a little lego ((Goonie)) dude down a PVC tube). Some of the group really just tore in and took over specific parts of the build. Three of us worked on getting started on the robot and the fourth was busy shooting photos and tape as documentation of our 'Process'. I had wanted to ask for insight from the team member who was shooting pics.
2. How did I respond? I didn't end up asking for over-all design buy-in from the 4th member. But I should have. I didn't really know how to approach the build but I finally found a part - mounting the 'brick' or lego robot CPU brain/nxt module thing (I'll get the actual name tomorrow...) to the base that a team-mate was assembling. From that point I was focused on that and fetching legos or helping others look for specific parts, and setting parts aside that may come in handy for our build. I ended up getting wrapped up and so much time went by quickly. I think we got collective feedback throughout initial design but didn't ask our photographer (member #4) for opinions.
3. Why? We all got wrapped up in working, building, and pinging ideas off of each other.... that we ignored our team-mate taking pictures... I'm sure each of us noticed or thought about it throughout the day but the effort wasn't really made due to laziness and inattentiveness to the 'team' taking part in the "process". Now that several hours have gone by... I wish I had thought about it this way at the time. I need to work harder on making sure everyone is pressed for their knowledge, without getting too wrapped up in a task and/or too focused on doing something on my own. Sometimes all that is needed to help resolve is a problem is another set of eyes and brain on it.
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