goal-driven engineering
nounA way of building things where you first decide what you want to achieve and then plan your work to reach it.
The team used goal-driven engineering to make a robot that could clean the whole room.
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2. An engineering approach that starts from a clear success criterion and works backward to the design.
Goal-driven engineering helped them choose the simplest motor that still met the speed target.
3. A management style in engineering where every task is tied to a measurable objective.
With goal-driven engineering, each sprint had a clear deliverable the whole team understood.
4. The practice of aligning technical decisions with user or business goals rather than technology for its own sake.
Goal-driven engineering kept the project from adding features nobody actually needed.