{"id":16,"date":"2009-09-23T17:27:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T17:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2009-09-23T17:27:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T17:27:10","slug":"why-re-invent-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Why re-invent the wheel&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lazysocialbuttons\" data-float=\"left\" data-buttons=\"google,twitter,facebook\" data-twshareurl=\"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=16\" data-twtext=\"\" data-shareurl=\"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=16\" data-fbhideflyout=\"false\" data-backgroundtype=\"light\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17\" title=\"200022813-001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/consultants-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"200022813-001\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/home\/amberhibiz\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/consultants-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/home\/amberhibiz\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/consultants.JPG 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>During the product design stage it makes good sense to re-use previous design knowledge wherever possible. This may seem to be a bit of a lazy option but is valid for the following reasons:-<\/p>\n<p>1) The existing design will have been fully validated and tested.<\/p>\n<p>2) Considerable time and effort will be saved instead of\u00a0 &#8220;re-inventing the wheel&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3) The existing design layout and supporting documentation already exists.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t mean that innovation should stop, on the contrary any improvements in design should be incorporated into the new version.<\/p>\n<p>Product design is an evolutionary process which makes best use of previous innovation.<\/p>\n\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar addthis_pub = '';\nvar addthis_language = 'en';var addthis_options = 'email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more';\n<\/script>\n<div class=\"addthis_container\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=20\" onmouseover=\"return addthis_open(this, '', 'https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amberhill.biz%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D16', 'Why+re-invent+the+wheel%26%238230%3B')\" onmouseout=\"addthis_close()\" onclick=\"return addthis_sendto()\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/lg-share-en.gif\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/200\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Button END -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the product design stage it makes good sense to re-use previous design knowledge wherever possible. This may seem to be a bit of a lazy option but is valid for the following reasons:- 1) The existing design will have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=16\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,6,123],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pmot","tag-design-process","tag-project-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}