The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
Predictability and great design are not friends.
A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.
...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.
Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.
The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.