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Re: Keeping an Eye on the Big Picture

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Originally Posted by sanddrag View Post
If you wait to finish the CAD model before cutting any metal at all, you might have only a CAD model to compete with.
True. Several parts are 'standard' and can be fabricated right away, as can most drivetrain components. (I wonder if the CAD model might do better at competition though...)
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Originally Posted by Madison View Post
Appreciated. It's my own fault, of course. I am terrible and delegating tasks I think I can handle myself.
Yeah, I was young once myself, but then I got old and learned how to delegate ruthlessly. And later still I learned that I hated supervising, and I am now quite content and fulfilled as a worker bee.
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Originally Posted by Gdeaver View Post
For the night by night, day by day management of build, the agile development method works quite well.
I just read he Agile Manifesto on Wikipedia; I'd never heard of it before.

Wow.

Implementing it, to me, means getting everyone together for updates and collaborative decisions. The customer is the drive team.
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