From my senior year of undergrad at Rutgers University New Brunswick I was part of a project team that was working on developing a portable ultrasound device with position micron tracking so that we can accurately diagnose scoliosis. In this project group we had to follow almost all of the nine steps laid out in the lectures. We had to plan out what were goin to do over the course of the year and where we would need to start based on where the other project team before us had left off. There wasn’t really a project proposal since we picked the group and project that we wanted to work on individually. However, we did set up a design development plan on how we were going to calibrate and test our portable ultrasound device. Our Design Development Plan had outlined when were going to the meet during the week and for how long we were going to meet. We had out project team members known and we had to develop a Gantt Chart for class going over all of the specs of our project. We then weighed, assessed and compared our Gantt chart at the end to see how we’ve done. We basically had compared our input to our output with statistically significance and taking the sensitivity and specificity when comparing the measurements we took to real life measurements. Yes, I do believe all 9 steps are necessary as they create a solid concrete platform that ensures safety and moral standards that everyone should abide by. Even though it may not apply to every project group, it makes sure that everything is safe regardless and it doesn’t leave anything up to chance.