The act of actually fabricating a deliverable product wherein Engineering gets dragged into the realities of things like cost effectiveness and productivity after the pie-in-the-sky design phase, but before the living hell that is Test1.
Footnotes
Don’t get me wrong. I like the test phase, and have always got along well with people who spend their lives there. But the first exposure isn’t always a lot of fun for non-hardheads.[↩]