The number one key to a successful project’s success is: Uncovering the Unknowns.
With any amount of competence, a project is planned for the time and budget allotted. Depending on the industry, there are many tools to help with this.
Projects go out-of-deadline and become unsavageable when “things come up” at the last minute.
You can reduce this simply by front-loading unknown discovery. Each step of the project, turn unknowns into knowns. That is not to say that the unknowns must be completely solved, but they must be solved enough to know that there are no dragons lurking.
Said a different way, projects fail when surprises appear.
So — what have been the unknowns when building the Jokeinator™?
- What battery to use?
- What will the price point be?
- What is the deadline to get to market?
- What colour should the shell be?
- How/where to sell?
- Where should I source the parts from?
- What should the final product do?
- What does the packaging look like?
- How big of a production run should we do?