Risk Management

Todays lecture was a bit different. It still had a theme of course: Risk Management. But the layout of the lecture was somewhat different. Basically the week before we were told that what our lecturer had in mind for next wks lecture would need 3 hours to complete.

So what exactly was our 3 hour lecture about...

Well our lecturer demonstrated to us a robot that when a ball was placed in front of it, the robot would go towards the ball and attempt to grab it and when the lecturer clapped his hands released the ball and turned around back and went back to the lecturer.

Pretty cool right? Totally. That is until he informs us that he would like us to recreate exactly what he did. Which means the build the robot (lego style), the stand the legos on, the ball and stand for the ball, and o ya program the robot to be able to do all that. Ok I'm exaggerating a bit. We were given instructions for building the robot and software to help us program the robot.

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We were also given 16 chips (our budget). Our lecturer said that he will be our consultant and that for every 15 mins we haven't got each of the stages completed he will take coin off us. What we didn't know was that each time he came around and we weren't paying attention to him he'd take more money that he should.
Lesson being you have to be alert and have your eye on everything or You Will Get Shafted.

It was a pretty good lecture. Showed us how to work in a team, delegate, budgeting and of course the risks involved if you don't have proper structure.