At first I did not understand how we were supposed to take such a complex real life situation, a restaurant, and turn it into a class on the first day. After reading the sheet I had a better understand but was not quite sure. However, the other members helped me to understand exactly what we were supposed to do. So we started with the most obvious element, a waitress and we wrote down what her job is. After a few more moments of getting the waitress's role down we moved on to the chef. From there the group really got rolling and we filled in the rest of the crucial parts of the restaurant.
In order to simplify the complexities of a restaurant we assumed that there was no necessary extra people needed to fill small specialty roles. What I mean by that is we assumed that we wound not need a pizza chef, or a suchi chef, or a bartender, but rather a waitress and a chef could take care of those things. That was are main assumption.
I think it was pretty productive. At first we had to read the sheet and it took us a while to get started. I mean to we had to do a project on the first day of class with strangers. But after we got that dealt with we worked pretty diligently. One of things I would have like to have done given more time would be to write the information down on the index cards in the given format. Other than that I think our group was very productive.
Well first of, I am a very slow reader, and by taking my time reading the sheet I made our group sacrifice precious time sitting around.
To be honest I don't think anybody just filled one role. I mean everybody came up with ideas and then the other people would play the yes-person role. As for scribe, Ben Spain wrote down some of the class elements, I wrote down the rest, and drew a very good graph which perfectly explained the interactions in our class. Everybody played an important role.