<VV> Good quote for the day! - A bit of Corvair

[corvairduval at cox.net]

And don't forget "requirements creep" or "feature creep". This is where as
desiging goes on, people realize features and requirements which would be
great that were not part of the original design. Back to the drawing
board...

Frank DuVal

Original Message:
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From: Dave Keillor dkeillor at tconcepts.com
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:31:22 -0500
To: Sethracer at aol.com, virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Good quote for the day! - A bit of Corvair


Back in the mid to late 80s, I spent four years in Japan analyzing their
development and manufacturing processes (computers and electronics).  We
came up with a catch phrase to describe the processes: "Good enough is
better than best".  And, yes, I'm guilty of the perfectionist approach to
my Corvair projects.

Dave Keillor -- former design engineer

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:17 AM, <Sethracer at aol.com> wrote:

>
>
> "Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection  is
> demoralizing."
>
>
> --Harriet Braiker,
> American psychologist and  writer
>
> Also expressed as: "Better" is the enemy of "good-enough".
>
> It has often struck me, as I have worked on my Corvairs, and my  other
> cars, that there are things that could have been built better than they
>  were
> actually assembled and delivered. But then I look at my own projects  and
> note
> that, the planning and incorporation of new ideas can often  cause a
> project to drag on and on, and not get completed! There is a famous
>  cartoon that
> has been posted on the wall of many a Manufacturing office. It  shows an
> older Engineering design/Mechanical drawing table, with a dead engineer
> sprawled across it, and a man standing behind him with a smoking gun. The
>  caption
> says:
>
>  "There comes a time when you have to shoot the engineers  and begin
> production!"
>
> At some point, Ed Cole must have walked into the Chevy  Engineering
> offices, shot the engineers (Virtually, of course!) and ordered the  1960
> Corvair
> into production.
>
> Seth Emerson - former Manufacturing engineer

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