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Winfield Hill
- Jan 1, 1970
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http://www.reed-electronics.com/ednmag/article/CA339721
Sage advice from Howard Johnson, PhD. A been-there-done-that
recommendation about managing specifications and performance
margins in engineering projects: Use two budgets.
The official public budget, plus your secret budget with your
calculated and actual-measured values. The public budget has
intentionally-increased values over your true private budget.
These allow you to discover or create "improvements" as needed
to provide slack for the inevitable degradations uncovered
during development, without requiring painful career-damaging
changes in the product specs.
Best line: "Now, tear out this article and burn it."
Thanks,
- Win
whill_at_picovolt-dot-com
Sage advice from Howard Johnson, PhD. A been-there-done-that
recommendation about managing specifications and performance
margins in engineering projects: Use two budgets.
The official public budget, plus your secret budget with your
calculated and actual-measured values. The public budget has
intentionally-increased values over your true private budget.
These allow you to discover or create "improvements" as needed
to provide slack for the inevitable degradations uncovered
during development, without requiring painful career-damaging
changes in the product specs.
Best line: "Now, tear out this article and burn it."
Thanks,
- Win
whill_at_picovolt-dot-com