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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
...For just about every concept and strategy we come up with, we find a reason why it cost cost us big time....
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there are engineering processes for dealing with this, listing all your concepts and strategies, and then assigning them numerical ratings for several factors. (like scoring, defense, how hard it will be to design, how hard it will be to fabricate, how reliable it will be, expensive, repairable....)
when you analize your options this way sometimes you are really surprized what the best answer comes out to be.
and an added bonus: it takes the ego factor out of the decision process. If someone comes up with a great idea, they wont feel so bad if it is not used because you can clearly show its too expensive, complex, hard to maintain...