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Kind of reminds me of something discussed on HN a long time ago "Why The Vasa Sank" : http://faculty.up.edu/lulay/failure/vasacasestudy.pdf http://faculty.up.ed
by rwhitman 13y ago
Kind of reminds me of something discussed on HN a long time ago "Why The Vasa Sank" : http://faculty.up.edu/lulay/failure/vasacasestudy.pdf http://faculty.up.edu/lulay/failure/vasacasestudy.pdf
There was a good discussion on HN about it at the time, particularly about the book "Challenger Launch Decision": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3413706 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3413706
Really interesting to watch a software project of this magnitude fail for the same reasons as documented in these historical disasters.