Seven Heads are Better Than One

Addtronics team brainstorming session

Continuing from last week, the Addtronics team has firmly determined key aspects of the project such as stakeholders and their wants and needs. From this information we’ve been able to create a thorough and organized document containing critical requirements and specifications. These requirements and specifications have been ranked in order of importance using a house of quality table that has been reviewed by our liaison to determine any specifications that were missing or unnecessary. Identifying these points has been fundamental for guiding us as we consider new ideas through our brainstorming process.

As pictured above, this week our team has taken a deep dive into research and brainstorming possible solutions for the major problems in our project. Our initial brainstorming session consisted of each team member developing an idea to solve an aspect of the problem and writing it down on a sticky note. We then passed our sticky note to the person on our right to build on that idea and continued until we received back our original idea. In this way we incorporated a “yes and” approach where we all collaborated with each other and expressed our ideas fully. Afterwards we sorted the concepts into similar categories and began discussing their feasibility. Next week, we will continue to narrow the plethora of ideas that surged through our brainstorming sessions.

Aside from brainstorming, we have been extensively reviewing the documentation available for the technology we will be using (robotic dog and arm). Next week we look forward to having a physical demonstration of the robotic dog and begin developing tests to verify we can meet the project requirements.

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