TY - BOOK ID - 4804310 TI - Design process improvement : a review of current practice AU - Clarkson, John AU - Eckert, Claudia PY - 2005 SN - 9781846280610 185233701X 9781852337018 9786612823527 1846280613 1282823523 PB - London [U.K.] : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Engineering. KW - Engineering Design. KW - Management/Business for Professionals. KW - Manufacturing, Machines, Tools. KW - User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. KW - Computer science. KW - Engineering design. KW - Machinery. KW - Industrial management. KW - Ingénierie KW - Informatique KW - Conception technique KW - Machines KW - Gestion d'entreprise KW - Engineering design KW - Civil & Environmental Engineering KW - Civil Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - 745.036 KW - Design, Engineering KW - Engineering KW - Industrial design KW - Strains and stresses KW - Design KW - 745.036 Design KW - Management. KW - User interfaces (Computer systems). KW - Manufacturing industries. KW - Machines. KW - Tools. KW - Manufactures. KW - Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes. KW - Informatics KW - Science KW - Manufactured goods KW - Manufactured products KW - Products KW - Products, Manufactured KW - Commercial products KW - Manufacturing industries KW - Administration KW - Industrial relations KW - Organization KW - Interfaces, User (Computer systems) KW - Human-machine systems KW - Human-computer interaction UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4804310 AB - vi The process is important! I learned this lesson the hard way during my previous existence working as a design engineer with PA Consulting Group's Cambridge Technology Centre. One of my earliest assignments involved the development of a piece of labo- tory automation equipment for a major European pharmaceutical manufacturer.Two things stick in my mind from those early days – first, that the equipment was always to be ready for delivery in three weeks and,second,that being able to write well structured Pascal was not sufficient to deliver reliable software performance. Delivery was ultimately six months late,the project ran some sixty percent over budget and I gained my first promotion to Senior Engineer. At the time it puzzled me that I had been unable to predict the John Clarkson real effort required to complete the automation project – I had Reader in Engineering Design, genuinely believed that the project would be finished in three Director, Cambridge Engineering weeks.It was some years later that I discovered Kenneth Cooper's Design Centre papers describing the Rework Cycle and realised that I had been the victim of “undiscovered rework”.I quickly learned that project plans were not just inaccurate,as most project managers would attest,but often grossly misleading,bearing little resemblance to actual development practice. ER -