Similar too many other people who responded, I also experienced some setbacks during my capstone project. The project was to design an adhesive that would be applied to a graft intended to block a cerebral spinal fluid leak. Our initial timeline involved having nearly 2 months to test our prototype. Unfortunately the materials we purchased took much longer to arrive than we allotted for. This left us with only about a month left to perform testing before the project was due. The way we coped with this was to get rid of certain tests that we intended to perform on our prototype (ex cell viability). We were able to get away by this by saying that the tests we removed from our protocol were outside the scope of our project. In the real world, however, this would not be acceptable. The problem could’ve been avoided by better planning our timeline to make our materials were ordered earlier so they would arrive with enough time to do the proper testing.