8. Mistakes to avoid

Working alone: draw on the full range of expertise within and outside your company (marketing, manufacturing, sales). For example, if this is important for your product, you'll need to integrate delivery logistics constraints right from the design stage.

Don't build risk into your design from the outset.

Lack of a progress indicator for achievements (not tasks performed). This indicator must be unique, displayed, shared and visible to everyone at every progress meeting.

Keeping manufacturing tolerances on your drawings that are incompatible with industrial cost and quality requirements. Making one good part is easy enough, but making a thousand compliant ones a day is far more delicate.

Work sequentially. All criteria must be advanced...