How did your group make the decisions? What problems did you encounter in the process? Did your group make decisions in a different way than the whole class did? Why? What kind of information system do you need to design to support such a process of negotiation? Provide a simple hardware/software configuration.
At the beginning our group decided to send me all the value tables to create
an Excel spreadsheet with all the possible combination solutions in order to find the one that would maximize the best outcome for everyone. We then decided to delete any combinations that would give any of the members of the group less than 20 points we ended up with 2 possible combinations. The first option would give myself the lowest score with 26 points and a total for the whole group of 264 points. The second option would give John the lowest score of all with only 20 points but will give a 
total of 375 points to the group. After intense negotiation, the whole group, John included, agreed to select the second option since with the exception of John everyone else in the group will benefit much more than with the first combination. Then, after speaking to the professor we realized that we weren’t limited to just find the best combination. As long as the whole group agreed, we had the power and ability to trade, pool the points given by the 
professor among ourselves. In other words there weren’t any restrictions and you could go outside the box. Right then we decided to pool all the points given by the professor and redistribute them evenly among all members of the group, even though some members had way more points than others, in a combination that would give us all a maximized result.
After speaking with several other groups they had all done what we did originally. They also created spreadsheets and chose a combination that
everyone agreed on. I also saw a group before class where all its members were discussing and trying different combinations. They were the only ones that I know that did not use an Excel spreadsheet. I am assuming that they didn’t want to share their results with their group.
To support this process of negotiation I would design a server-based system with an internet linked interface to make it easier for all parties to access and communicate. We would then need an application that would allow all parties to communicate, negotiate, share and disclose data if wanted. After all parties
input their data, the system automatically calculates the best options for each member and also identify the best options for the groups as a whole to ease negotiations.
At the beginning our group decided to send me all the value tables to create
an Excel spreadsheet with all the possible combination solutions in order to find the one that would maximize the best outcome for everyone. We then decided to delete any combinations that would give any of the members of the group less than 20 points we ended up with 2 possible combinations. The first option would give myself the lowest score with 26 points and a total for the whole group of 264 points. The second option would give John the lowest score of all with only 20 points but will give a 
total of 375 points to the group. After intense negotiation, the whole group, John included, agreed to select the second option since with the exception of John everyone else in the group will benefit much more than with the first combination. Then, after speaking to the professor we realized that we weren’t limited to just find the best combination. As long as the whole group agreed, we had the power and ability to trade, pool the points given by the 
professor among ourselves. In other words there weren’t any restrictions and you could go outside the box. Right then we decided to pool all the points given by the professor and redistribute them evenly among all members of the group, even though some members had way more points than others, in a combination that would give us all a maximized result.After speaking with several other groups they had all done what we did originally. They also created spreadsheets and chose a combination that
everyone agreed on. I also saw a group before class where all its members were discussing and trying different combinations. They were the only ones that I know that did not use an Excel spreadsheet. I am assuming that they didn’t want to share their results with their group.To support this process of negotiation I would design a server-based system with an internet linked interface to make it easier for all parties to access and communicate. We would then need an application that would allow all parties to communicate, negotiate, share and disclose data if wanted. After all parties
input their data, the system automatically calculates the best options for each member and also identify the best options for the groups as a whole to ease negotiations. 
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