Most rework starts months earlier with a risk one engineer spotted that never reached the people who needed to know.
I work with engineering managers to find out where it's getting lost and why, decide what to change and see the change through.
Find out where it's getting lost in your teamThree things that came up in nearly every conversation I've had with engineering leaders this year.
Working to a spec that has already changed
Requirements get altered and the change isn't fed back. Rework and delay, and on a fixed price it comes out of margin.
Not being able to see what the next team is doing
Two teams go down the same path and learn the same lesson separately. Priority turns into a fight over resources.
Everyone building their own system
Lists, dashboards, templates, none of it joined up. The information isn't missing. Finding it means knowing who holds it.
I've spent fifteen years in mechanical design and product development and I've made plenty of mistakes along the way. I worked without structure, missed deadlines, ran simulations when a hand calculation would have done and chased engineers for updates before the work was due. I recognise the same things now when they happen in other teams.