Value Engineering, What's Your Take? 1

[VoyageofDiscovery]

Hello all,

What's your opinion of "value engineering"?

My experience of this on large projects is, though it generates another perspective, inherently there are just too many fingers in the pot that railroad projects into further costs, compromised schedules and engineers at odds which ultimately confuse the Client and leaves them with a bad taste.

As engineers we need to get the Client on board with all the major decisions, however, the predicament is we never get the ideal Client that has 100% faith.

VOD

 

[GregLocock]

VAVE is a bit old hat, we've taken the best bits out of it and fold it into the use of Kano charts. This builds a model of the relative utility of a given feature to the customer, and so it allows you to split development effort more accurately between the parts of a project.

It's still black magic of course.

I don't know how it would work with large scale or capital intensive projects off the drawing board, since the customer won't know what he wants until he sees it. A solution to that is to build a functional prototype and let them evaluate it... and hope you got it right!

Cheers

Greg Locock