Comments on: Action Talks, Armchair Pundits Walk http://manypossibilities.net/2009/01/action-talks-armchair-pundits-walk/ In the beginner's mind there are... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:40:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: David Rowe http://manypossibilities.net/2009/01/action-talks-armchair-pundits-walk/comment-page-1/#comment-729 David Rowe Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:51:11 +0000 http://manypossibilities.net/?p=475#comment-729 I totally agree, all the business planning in the world is worth less than one prototype in the field. These days I also tend to design the engineering projects around this rule - i.e. work out ways to short circuit development and get the product into the field ASAP. You can also put this rule in a loop, i.e. field experience -> tweak design -> back into field -> field experience -> tweak design. That is what we are doing with the Village Telco, using the team's business, field, and technical experience to synthesise our next iteration of a viable Telco system. - David I totally agree, all the business planning in the world is worth less than one prototype in the field. These days I also tend to design the engineering projects around this rule – i.e. work out ways to short circuit development and get the product into the field ASAP.

You can also put this rule in a loop, i.e. field experience -> tweak design -> back into field -> field experience -> tweak design. That is what we are doing with the Village Telco, using the team’s business, field, and technical experience to synthesise our next iteration of a viable Telco system.

- David

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