Elon Musk’s 5 Step Engineering Protocol - to be applied IN ORDER.

1. Make the requirements less dumb

   Question them. They are dumb. Find out how and see if they can be made less dumb.

2. Try to remove the part or step

   Complexity is the enemy. If you're not adding things back in 10% of the time you're not removing often enough.

3. Simply of Optimize

   Only after removing what you can and making the requirements less dumb.

4. Accelerate cycle time

   Once you've done all of the above… do the process faster.

5. Automate

   After getting a smooth, logical, non-error-prone process running, remove in-process testing and manipulation

Source

Elon Musk Reveals His 5-Step Engineering Protocol

Related Notes

Less, but Better

Simple is Maintainable