Eggs-cellent Planning

My group was very confident that we would be able to construct a safe housing for our egg out of the materials provided. We did a very good job of defining our goals and objectives as we knew exactly how we wanted our egg to fall and we understood what we needed to do to make a successful egg basket, or so we thought. We also did a good job of allocating our given resources and determining our status objectives as we generated a pretty thorough and detailed plan. We knew how we were going to apportion each straw and each piece of tape before we were even given any materials. One of our biggest setback's was our disregard of developing an alternative strategy; we were so confident in our initial strategy that we never even though of what to do if our egg did not look sheltered after construction. We were pretty meticulous in creating our tactical plan as we assigned roles to each group member (i.e scissor grabber, straw cutter, straw taper, dropper). Everyone in the group had a role and contributed to our final product. We did a good job of implementation in the sense of executing exactly what we planned to do. However, I believe our problem lied in the plan and strategy itself rather than the implementation, which ultimately lead to our demise. I think we should have, as a group, came up with a couple different alternatives rather than just "running" with our first option.