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"This is the way we've always done it" is the reason why this ship is so over budget in time and money. Anyone who has been in IT should have seen the story pl
by mysterydip 9y ago
"This is the way we've always done it" is the reason why this ship is so over budget in time and money.
Anyone who has been in IT should have seen the story play out at least once in their career: some legacy system that's been hobbled together to keep running for so long because it worked... but now that a decade or more has passed there's finally some catalyst that says you _must_ upgrade. The problem being that now the upgrade is rip-and-replace rather than micro updates over time. That's what's happening here, on many systems at once.
- cottsak 9y ago#lean, #agile and the fundamental principals of Small Batches seem to be at odds with programs like carrier development and defence contracts in general. It's very unlikely that the lessons from IT fields will ever make their way into projects like this.
- mysterydip 9y agoI can understand the perspective, too, though. Stuff has to work. You're not emailing a new build to them mid-cruise. This means there should be a large paper trail and signoff on any project, which makes any team hesitant to anything but incremental changes. I'm not sure what the ultimate solution would be that keeps the reliability aspect but allows for more risky/rapid development.