In Class Reflection Week 3

This week in class was definitely a huge relief.  As I discussed earlier, last week we had a huge amount of inventory of calendars and some bad-looking predictions for our cafe.  This week was largely spent solving those problems.  We had some bumps in the rode, including the "advertising gone wrong" issue, but ultimately, last week was a huge success.  With a solid group effort, we are now 3 calendars away from breaking even and we were able to decrease some of our costs so that our coffee shop is expected to make slightly less than $90,000.00 a year.  This is a huge advancement from last weeks standing, but we can still do better.  We still have at least 50 more calendars we can sell and I still think we can cut costs on construction and employment.

Last week was good because we effectively divided up labor.  Ben and Clay worked on the calendar project, while Jacob, Yiorgos and I took on the problems we had with storefront.  I think it's very important that we continue this system, as it leads to a much greater understanding of individual role in a larger project.  Unfortunately, this means that it looks like we didn't do as much work in Trello (solely due to the way we organized our Trello page), but it is worth it so that we can produce a more in depth and complete final project.

Initially, I had worried about being in a group with 4 friends, as I had concerns that distractions would destroy productivity.  However, I've found that working with friends has actually made the workplace more pleasant, and has made communication much easier.  I'm extremely happy with that.