I found the OHP to be really interesting and also very difficult. I have always been someone who works well in group project because splitting up work and doing my portion has just always been one of my strong suits. However, in the past I have never taken a lead on a group project. I used to sit back and let other people disperse the work and I would take whatever people didn't want to do. In this project I was forced to take the lead and keep my group organized. I got the sense early in the project that nobody else was willing to step up and I am glad that I did and was able to get the project done. I did have difficulty with someone in my group doing absolutely nothing but at one point my whole group just decided we had to pretend they weren't in the group and do things on our own.
The advice I would give to somebody else doing this project is to not be too focused on exact information you want to get out of somebody. The questions in an interview that give the interviewee more room to explain almost always give you more meaningful and explained answers. If you go into an interview thinking you want an exact story from somebody you will most likely get them to share it with you from just asking them to elaborate on some things. It is also very important to have everyone in your group understand their responsibilities from the start so that there is less confusion about what you should and shouldn't be doing to help. Once everyone understands what they should be doing if someone doesn't you then have a very clear picture of who is slacking and you can then figure out if this person just needs more explaining and help to get their part done or if they are just being lazy and don't plan to do any work. I loved this project and it has definitely taught be a lot about how to be a leader for a project and I was already able to use those skills on the collaborative section project that we did.
