JVN Build Tip: Remember your Goals

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Originally Posted by JVN

"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

This.

At my team's meeting tonight, I was able to stop everyone, gain their full attention, and read this aloud. I think it went a long ways. Thanks John.