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Re: Team Kickoff Meeting

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Originally Posted by sanddrag View Post
Voting presumes everyone gets the same say in something and that everyone is equally qualified to have a say in something. This is simply not the case. We find voting to be a popularity contest, not a logical decision making process, and therefore we don't do it. The problem is, you get kids voting for things they are not capable of carrying out.
I cannot agree strongly enough with this. Most of us students flat out don't have enough experience to tell what a feasible design is or isn't-- that being said, it's important to find those that do.

I read the same quote and it's part of why my team has almost completely scrapped voting from our design process. Our hope is that it will help us avoid the massive problems with split decision making we ran into last year.
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