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> Unlike the Shuttle, which was largely designed by politicians and committees and engineered retroactively It's like saying a service is designed by PMs and e
by avmich 5y ago
> Unlike the Shuttle, which was largely designed by politicians and committees and engineered retroactively
It's like saying a service is designed by PMs and engineered retroactively :( . It's a bad choice of words.
- ragebol 5y agoCan anything be engineered retroactively? I mean: the thing flew and landed, so there was clearly some successful engineering going on, before launch. The requirements were heavily influenced by politics, that is for sure.
- aero-glide2 5y agoBiggest problem was that since the astronaut office demanded it should always be manned, design changes were very conservative. No rapid iteration was possible.
- Robotbeat 5y agoThe usual way of describing Shuttle in this way (which I assuming they are paraphrasing here) is it was “zip code engineered,” meaning it was intentionally designed with contractors spread across the country so as to maximize its political support base.
- dkarp 5y ago> It's like saying a service is designed by PMs and engineered retroactively Which is a genuine problem on some teams right? The most effective teams I've worked on had engineering a part of the product design process from the beginning. On the worst teams we received a "fully specced" ticket and no engineer had ever seen it.