There were two team projects per year each of 13 weeks duration. Each project uses this three phase tactic. The emphasis between product and process varies through the phases to focus the teams attention on the two aspects of the project objectives. In the average phase the assessors are primarily interested in process issues and process improvement. The person adopting a role attached to a process e.g. quality control,is responsible for carrying out this procedure and to provide visibility of doing so.
Teams can reflect on, and improve, processes to suit the teams way of working.
On assessment the supervisor would be looking for evidence of successful application of new procedure and improvements due to the changes. It could be argued that this reveals an inability to describe an excellent product before it is produced. However a creative mind might find novel solutions. In practice this has never happened. If it did, the only constraint on the student is that the characteristics of this excellent product should be recorded, together with the processes used to produce it.