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Seven of the Month - December 2010

This seven is a seven of faith from Bishop Edgley's conference talk in reference to Alma 32:27-28 . 1 Awake 2 Arouse your faculties 3 Experiment upon my words 4 Exercise a particle of faith 5 Desire to believe 6 Work 7 Plant (make place for the word)

The Process of Creating a Functional Prototype

One of my coworkers gave a marketing presentation about a year ago. For his presentation he researched the topic of prototyping from various sources. He decided to gather the ideas and concepts of his research into steps to make it easier to understand. And as you may have guessed since I'm presenting it here - there are seven steps to the prototyping process. Functional Prototyping Series: Steps in Creating a Functional Prototype : 1) Paper to Software Design 2) User Interface 3) Virtual Prototyping 4) Adding Hardware 5) Algorithm Engineering 6) Instrumenting and Testing 7) Deployment First of all, I must say that I was amazed that someone not intending to make a seven structure, could do so well at discovering a set of seven that imitates the creation process so well in both order and completeness. He stated in his presentation that steps two through six have the ability to circle around, not necessarily sticking to that order, until the creator feels that it is suffi