The Notre Dame fire and the future of history

Re:The Notre Dame fire and the future of history by zitterbewegung on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @10:25AM (#19673860)

I think we have smaller size projects that move toward a common goal in the modern era. Take for example Aircraft or faster processors or AI. We have a longer term goal (faster processors) but a bunch of short term projects (x86 / POWER).

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Re:The Notre Dame fire and the future of history by derekp7 on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @10:27AM (#19673880)

So basically we now do Agile, whereas in the past it was all Waterfall?

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Re:The Notre Dame fire and the future of history by goobynight on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @11:57AM (#19674755)

Even in the past, you could use agile. e.g. roads.

It's only constructions like cathedrals that you can't really use until it's nearly complete.

Imagine having to wait until 2015 for Google to ship its first suite of products. The cashflow and other things wouldn't make sense. Google is essentially under constant construction though, as is a University which adds buildings every so often.

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Re:The Notre Dame fire and the future of history by LyndsySimon on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @11:58AM (#19683708)

This comparison has been made before - "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." It's an excellent book, and I highly recommend it.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-cathedral-the-bazaar

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Re:The Notre Dame fire and the future of history by treis on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @01:27PM (#19675513)

I don't think that's accurate. There was a whole lot of:

"Ok, remove the support scaffolding"

"Oh crap it's falling! Put it back, put it back!"

followed up by a design tweak.

Or the King/Bishop decided that they wanted something different and the design was changed.

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