Mythical Six Week Build Season

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by techhelpbb

In about the last 10 months I've worked about 1,000 hours of time over a 8 hour work day specifically because someone scoped a project with too little time to make the core delivery. Bugs or not.

That's not a little over time. That's basically 70 hours a week. All because someone didn't actually think about the scope, or did not understand the scope, of the core deliverable.

There's a great big difference between mostly there and off by one mile.

And how does that compare to the 6 week build season? In my experience, it is entirely possible to build a successful robot in 6 weeks. It's also possible to blow your own schedule and not meet the deadline. Figuring out how to deal with that, the importance of checkpoints and adjustments along the way is a crucial part of engineering.