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This is the Mel Conway of "Conway's Law" named by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man Month. Don't skip it just because it seems to be about the F-35; it isn't. It'
by jloughry 11y ago
This is the Mel Conway of "Conway's Law" named by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man Month. Don't skip it just because it seems to be about the F-35; it isn't. It's about complexity, concurrency (the risk thereof) and---at the very end---about abstractions for fitting huge systems into your head.
- ckozlowski 11y agoSeconding this recommendation. It's not bashing the F-35 as an aircraft, but taking aim at the program. Sadly, as he points out, it's happened plenty of times before. The F-35 program just happens to be egregious because it started out so big. Highly recommend this read.
- griffinmahon 11y agoAn interesting problem that came up during development of the Navy version, which has to land on carriers: when the landing gear and hooks were first tested, the placement of the back wheels was such that they created a sine wave in the arresting cable which just happened to be "down" when the hook moved over the cable, meaning the hook wouldn't catch and the plane could never land this way. They then had to go back and redesign the arrangement of the landing gear and hook.