For my capstone design project, my team and I were in charge of designing a wearable watch and an app in order to help autistic children incorporate into society. The team was doing everything on time. However we applied to different grants at the beginning of the semester, by the time we found out that we had received the grant, the semester was already ¾ gone. The people from the grant told us that there was more possibility for this product to succeed in the market if we only created the hardware or the software. So we met with our adviser and in fact, there is a bigger chance of the product to be more effective if we only created the hardware. All the time that my classmates and I had invested in designing the wearable watch was gone because we would now be using an existing watch and then just create the app. This delayed us because we had to go back and redo the documents that we had done before based on both software and hardware. Although it created more work, I think this change was for the good of the project.
Let me know what you think!
Sincerely,
Roberto Pineda.