26 Rules for FRC Design

[Ian Curtis]

You missed the best one!

29. (von Tiesenhausen's Law of Program Management) To get an accurate estimate of final program requirements, multiply the initial time estimates by pi, and slide the decimal point on the cost estimates one place to the right.

16. Half of everything you hear on Chief Delphi is crap. Experience is figuring out which half is which.

Probably over 80% in actuality, but the remaining 20% is well worth sticking around for.

[safiq10]

love this

[rachelholladay]

Originally Posted by Ian Curtis

You missed the best one!

29. (von Tiesenhausen's Law of Program Management) To get an accurate estimate of final program requirements, multiply the initial time estimates by pi, and slide the decimal point on the cost estimates one place to the right.

Whenever we'd ask for a estimate on the mechanical subsystems, the mechanicals would double their estimate and then tell our project manager, who would double and then tell myself, the software lead, and then I would double it. Still wasn't accurate enough a lot of the time.

[DampRobot]

Originally Posted by rachelholladay

Whenever we'd ask for a estimate on the mechanical subsystems, the mechanicals would double their estimate and then tell our project manager, who would double and then tell myself, the software lead, and then I would double it. Still wasn't accurate enough a lot of the time.

Then the mechanicals need to improve their estimation skills!

By the way, who comes up with these names ("de Saint-Exupery's Law of Design")? The fact that they seem so formal and establishment-sounding makes it so much funnier!

[MechEng83]

[Relevant background to my upcoming comment: My last name is Coulombe.]

My kids (especially the ones who have had physics) have begun keeping track of "sage" things I say during the year and have dubbed them "Coulombe's Laws"

#1 above is very close to a favorite of mine: "Do the math!"

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

Then the mechanicals need to improve their estimation skills!

By the way, who comes up with these names ("de Saint-Exupery's Law of Design")? The fact that they seem so formal and establishment-sounding makes it so much funnier!

They are named after the rocket scientist that came up with them. Google them, they were smart people that did cool stuff.

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

Then the mechanicals need to improve their estimation skills!

By the way, who comes up with these names ("de Saint-Exupery's Law of Design")? The fact that they seem so formal and establishment-sounding makes it so much funnier!

It's from a Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[Aren_Hill]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

It's from a Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote

This was much of the inspiration behind the swerve module with the CIM in the wheel.

staring at every part individually asking "do you need to exist?"