Prototyping Organization

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by Alicia V

We have found that we rush too fast to get the robot built and our finished product ends up with flaws.

The key is to build the prototype even faster, find the flaws, and correct them (that is, build a better one) before you compete. Don't wait for build season to do building - build up your team's fabrication skill and speed this fall and next summer. Take notice of who's fast, and who's good, and who's some of both. Assign peripheral and prototyping tasks to your faster people, and critical pieces where you know exactly what you want to the slower craftsmen. Watch the clock, but manage it by being ready to ditch one feature in favor of another done right rather than rushing to have two shoddy features.