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Originally Posted by technoL
We tried to implement Gantt charts last year, but eventually it was impossible to stay on track. Everything was planned out before the season started, and then the chart was adjusted and customized once we had a robot design (which ended up being a problem because the design was changed several times).
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There's your biggest problem right there. It is better to spend a few extra days figuring out what you REALLY want to build then go at it full bore, then to dance around trying to get one of three or four ideas to work.
We have learned that we can build a robot in two weeks or less IF we know exactly what we want to build. So we spend a lot of time prototyping and figuring out details before we start cutting metal. We actually build our practice robot first and apply the lessons learned to the "real" robot.