Today's text is about how a project is divided into its phases and what is not well solved about it. At the same time, some interesting suggestions are made on how to fix the problem.

Briefly about the text: It is claimed that many projects are carried out with insufficient clarification. In other words, the designer designs his part, the engineer works on his, and business again for itself. All three hardly think about the other and what results are delays, unsolvable problems and a product that is just OK. Many assume that the following two points are clear from the start, although this is usually not the case:

1. That we know what we want at the start of a project, and
2. That we know enough to start building it.

This is accompanied by a beautiful quote:

“Even if you do a brilliant job of building what you originally set out to build, if it is the wrong product, it still constitutes a failure. Likewise, you also fail if you build the right product the wrong way.”

It is suggested that before starting the project, the design, the engineering part and the business should be clarified and harmonised. Open questions involving several phases should be clarified. This is a major investment before the start of the project, but it sets the whole project up properly. This way you can make products that are not "just" OK, and you can avoid delays.

For me, I think this is good news. In my last career I worked as an engineer, so I know this side only too well. Now that I am studying design, I see great potential for me to be able to adapt exactly such an approach. I understand how engineers think and plan, and as a designer I can react very well to prevent problems in advance.