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The Death Star was an Agile Project
- scrrr 16y agoI guessed they lacked the V in MVP.
- qntm 16y agoTalk about a hostile working environment, though.
- ams6110 16y agoI'm not sure I'd hold up a project that left a fatal vulnerability exposed to the world as a "good" example of a methodology.
- icegreentea 16y agoArticle is talking about the second Death Star. They removed the 'small thermal exhaust port' of that one. Rather it got blown up cause it was under construction leaving a path to the core open (and the moon based shield generator got blown up).
- EdwardMSmith 16y ago"and the moon based shield generator got blown up" Taken down by a flaw in their hosting environment.
- archgoon 16y agoThey were blind sided by a DDOS attack followed by a 0-day exploit on their walkers which, through privilege escalation, resulted in the moon base being compromised. People just didn't take security seriously enough. The CEO of HBGary Imperial has since resigned.
- jonnathanson 16y agoI'm amazed they didn't build at least some redundancy into their shielding plans. I mean, come on. They fixed the fatal flaw from the first design, but you'd think they would have learned a more valuable lesson: it's not the exhaust port; it's the fact that you keep leaving one critical dependency in the plan each time.
- famousactress 16y agoNo, no.. the construction was always perfect. There just wasn't an acceptance test for that. If PM had wanted Death Star of the poking-it-there-won't-make-it-explode variety, then they should have written a User Story for that. Duh.
- Splines 16y agoBug: Thermal exhaust port is vulnerable to external attack that can lead to total system failure Opened By: qa-ds1-15215 Severity: 1 Fix By: DS2 Comments: qa-ds1-15215: I was checking out the design and noticed that thermal exhaust port AH-51 is open to the world. Someone could drop an explosive in here and bring down the system. This needs to be fixed ASAP. pm-ds1-32542: Well, duh. Who in their right mind is going to be dropping explosives into their own system? Resolution: By Design qa-ds1-15215: Status: Activated. Are you serious? Do you not understand the implications of this design problem? pm-ds1-32542: Assigned To: dev-ds1-29412. dev-ds1-29412: Jesus H. Christ, 15215. We talked about this in the hallway yesterday. There's no way we can change the design now, we've got people coming in to kick the tires on this thing. Resolution: Won't Fix qa-ds1-15215: You too???!!! You guys seriously don't understand what's at stake here. Can we at least look at this in the next version? Status: Activated. dev-ds1-29412: Fine. Resolution: Postponed. lukes: Lol
- jonnathanson 16y agoThis is one of those comments I really wish I could give more than 1 point to.
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- JoeAltmaier 16y agoI think its a perfect example of an Agile manager - anybody that isn't on board, throw under a bus.
- parfe 16y agoThe Death Star was a trap[1]. It wasn't semi-complete. It was fully operational[2] and designed to lure in the Rebel fleet to a single location. Destroying the rebels in detail had proved to be too time consuming. [1] Ackbar, Return of the Jedi "It's a trap!" [2] The Emperor, Return of the Jedi "As you can see, my young apprentice, your friends have failed. Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station!"
- checoivan 16y agoWell... We all know what happed to admirals Ozzel and Mottie when they said "no repro" and "woops, missed that" in the daily scrum with Darth Vader.
- microtherion 16y agoThe Sith must also have practiced pair programming, because "Always two there are..."