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Yeah, one of the things that struck me when reading about the development of the SR-71 and F-117[1] was how a lot of what we consider "start-up" culture has alr
by vvanders 7y ago
Yeah, one of the things that struck me when reading about the development of the SR-71 and F-117[1] was how a lot of what we consider "start-up" culture has already existed in one form or another.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003 https://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/...
- sunstone 7y agoYeah, there weren't many waterfalls in the skunk works.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoThere weren't many management layers either.
- brmgb 7y agoThe good parts of Agile are pretty much taken verbatim from the approach taken by project Mercury in the 60s. The space industry pretty much gave birth to iterative and incremental development
- kazen44 7y agoiterative development goes back much further. The industrial revolution made iterative design possible because it made the time and effort of producing something far cheaper.