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by teucris 37 days ago
> those variables were likely not known nor knowable during the design stage.

But they could have included an error factor in the designing process. I thought this was standard for manufacturing. And they could have done more robust testing which, again, I thought was pretty standard for manufacturing.

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> But they could have included an error factor in the designing process.

They almost certainly did. But that error factor is a guess based on limited testing. You never know your true variability until you're building at scale. Waterfall development doesn't work in the real world any better than it does in software.