Friday, September 21, 2007

Handing over, for the next lap

Would be handing over the solar car project during the next few weeks to the next team, starting tomorrow. i guess. Still have loads on my mind, and also possible design modifications or upgrades and major overhaul to our current design so that the new design will be able to conform to new rules and regulations for the South African solar car challenge.

Think handing over will be a challenge in itself as i have to ensure that it is done properly, to the best of my ability , to pass on as much knowledge as possible to the next team. Guess i will have to start typing and listing out exactly what challenges we faced and the steps we took to overcome it etc. So that hopefully the team will not have to undergo the same problems and thus will proceed with design faster and with less iterations. The tricky part is, how do i come out with that, when the design process would be different for different people? Even with only the 3 of us, yx, kx and myself, solutions that we came up with differs in concept but they all gets the job done. Should i focus instead on typing out the possible considerations that should be looked into at different phases of the project development so that the team need not back track?

i guess i would have to check in with the beloved butler on this, and to trust the next project leader on this vision and awareness of what would be required and anticipate rather than fire-fight. Especially since due to the late payment of critical parts, we were left with fire fighting with little time for anything else. And in our case, it was fighting a godzilla-sized blaze with a standard-sized SAF issued green mug in hand, and the water source is a twenty cent coin-sized puddle on the ground (of which dengue-stained mosquitoes would breed and kill the rest of the humans not burnt to toast by the fire).

So, the aim for me now is to do a proper handover and also maybe complete the battery box that could be used for the 'next generation' solar car within the next few weeks. =P

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