Element D (Iteration 2): Beta Design Concepts

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Week 17: Beta Design Concepts

PLTW Element D, Iteration 2 — Design Concept Generation, Analysis, and Selection, at production fidelity.

Generate Production-Fidelity Concepts

Unlike Sprint 2’s exploratory concepts, these should be production-fidelity options — real architectural or component choices you could actually ship, informed by everything you learned building and testing the Alpha.
Directly address your highest-RPN FMEA items (Element B, Iteration 2) in at least one concept each.

Decision Matrix v2

Score the new concepts against your revised PRD (Element C, Iteration 2) — the bar is higher than Sprint 2’s matrix.
Weight FMEA risk mitigation as an explicit criterion this time.

Select & Justify the Beta Design

Write My Solution (Beta) and its justification: which concept won, and specifically how it addresses the Trimester 1 failure modes.

Core Deliverables

Production-fidelity design concepts.
Decision Matrix v2 scored against the revised PRD.
Beta design selection + justification.

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