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Organizing Development Projects
How do you organize, plan, and evaluate development projects? How do you dene
project deliverables, specications, quality levels, and cost targets?
If the nished parts are going to work together, they must be developed
by groups that share a common picture of what each part must accom-
plish. Engineers in different disciplines are forced to communicate; the
challenge of management and team-building is to make that communi-
cation happen.
K. Eric Drexler
Thomas Edison is not appreciated as a production process innovator. In
fact, the novelty of his inventions required him to develop new materials that
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