JVN Build Tip: Remember your Goals

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Originally Posted by sanddrag

What I want to know John, is what is your team's decision making structure? Hierarchical? Dictatorship? Democracy? Micromanagement? Etc..

"Consensus building" facilitated by a strong veteran mentor group including one lead engineer with "ultimate veto power" (a term I stole from Paul Copioli).

Decisions on 148 are organic and tend to evolve naturally based on logic, reason, and quantitative engineering arguments. Tradeoff decisions are typically decided en masse by a design team where we try to get buy-in from everyone involved on the final decision. We recently went through this process (on Day 6) concerning a subsystem on this year's machine.

Under no circumstances will we vote. Vote is a 4-letter word in an engineering decision-making process.

-John