Value of Coopertition

[Craig Roys]

Originally Posted by F22Rapture

Due to a massive amount of overthinking things, we spent almost 3.5 weeks on design with most of that time wasted because we ultimately didn't have the resources or time to manage it.

This is a bit of an aside from the actual discussion, but I would argue that the time was not "wasted". Did the team members learn anything from the experience? Even if it wasn't used this past year, there was probably learning that will carrying into future seasons. In 2008 we spent almost 4 weeks on trying to design a new drive system that we ultimately scrapped for a much more simplistic design; however, the time we spent working on and troubleshooting was not "wasted" - we learned a lot of valuable lessons that we still draw from today. Failure is not necessarily bad...it depends on what you do with it.