XM Review Standards

Review Standards

Review is useful at many points of a development process. Together with Test-Driven Development, this can provide feedback necessary for project success - by converging on workable solutions more quickly than 'reinventing the wheel' or working by oneself. It should be noted that very few things are original - many things have been tried - so it's more worthwhile to search prior art than to reinvent the wheel.

The following list shows suggestions for successful review at various steps.

Prior to Investment

Review can be useful at the investment-searching stage, when proper review via third parties provides the necessary confidence to the investor.

Review may consist of calculation conclusions, verification of calculations, recommendations from others, peer review of the concept, etc.

Prior to CAD Design

• What are the calculations, and can someone review those?
• What is the SEBD, and can the Components be broken down even further?
• What are the interfaces between the components, and are these interfaces well-defined?

Work product:

• Status Log on XM Project Page reflects: review step, date of completion of review step, and link to the actual work

After Design

Review is useful after the design stage - when the design can be reviewed for:

• Manufacturability - assessment of:
  • Welding hours requiredu
  • Metal cutting and preparation
  • Hole-making
  • Stock steel usage vs. weldments
  • Castings vs weldments
• Rapid Prototyping (RP) assessments
  • What RP would be useful to inform the build in a tangible way?
  • If RP is decided, redesign for easy prototyping according to Rapid Prototyping Strategy, where the build will be design for testing of various uncertainties or risk factors

Advisors vs. Subject Matter Experts

Advisors, and in particular advisors who can be accessed within minutes of a problem being defined, are extremely useful - in their capacity for instant removal of blocks and

1. Define Problem Statement to involve others in development for transperancy and ability of both parties to assess the situation
   1. Quick video can show this.
   2. Introduce yourself if it's your first video
   3. For hardware, take object, picture, or design - and discuss it in an under 5 minute video for the component.
   4. Potentially set up space for this in XM Project Page
2. CAD available for review - CAD is prerequisite
   1. In absence of CAD, drawings may suffice
3. Static pictures for key mechanisms and processes presented clearly
   1. XM Project Page has review materials in a separate window?
4. Everything documented at x Project XM Review page on wiki