The U.S. Air Force learned to code and saved the Pentagon millions

Re:The U.S. Air Force learned to code and saved the Pentagon... by mcculley on Friday July 06, 2018 @07:52AM (#17470633)

For the Air Force, the MVP is often something that can do a lot of damage. Some things require expensive upfront design. One cannot just iterate through two week sprints until the crew survives.

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Re:The U.S. Air Force learned to code and saved the Pentagon... by mgkimsal on Friday July 06, 2018 @12:05PM (#17472528)

however, that MVP - used in a test environment - can lead to much more useful feedback from real people on the ground in days or weeks, vs years to build then deploy then getting ignored because it doesn't do what the users need.

There's a balance to be found, and it sounds like some of these skunkworks approaches are starting to get more formalized.

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