Planning is not about predicting the future: it is deciding in advance what your team will not leave for the last week.
PlanningLink to this section
- Understand what needs to happen across the season.
- Split the season into stages and set priorities.
- Think about what must be ready before you reach the competition.
Typical season stagesLink to this section
- Kickoff and game manual reading.
- Strategy, prototyping and picking the robot concept.
- Design (CAD) and fabrication.
- Programming, integration and driver testing.
- Inspection, final tuning and match rehearsals.
- Competition, retrospective and writing down lessons learned.
Goals and tasksLink to this section
- Turn a big goal into smaller tasks.
- Assign owners and deadlines.
- Track what is done and what is still missing.
ToolsLink to this section
- Trello or Notion to organize tasks.
- Google Calendar for commitments and deadlines.
- Google Drive and Sheets to store and organize information.