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A comment on Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space. Parent comment

Re:Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space by mlthoughts2018 on Monday November 04, 2019 @05:53PM (#21447540)
Yeah but did they use Agile methods and have good team velocity as they burned down the backlog? If not, how can we really be sure the project was a success?
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Re:Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space by kolinko on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:21PM (#21448302)
Agile shares a lot in common with practices mentioned in „Mythical man-month”, which in turn was based on the good practices from the Voyager era.

Also, extreme programming was based in part on the TDD from Mercury program, iirc.

Having said that - yes, cargo cult agile sucks, we all know that.

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Re:Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space by mlthoughts2018 on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:52PM (#21448873)
The surgical team analogy at the core of TMMM is totally incongruent with agile principles. The book espouses a ton of anti-agile (small a) ideas.
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Re:Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space by mixmastamyk on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:18PM (#21449567)
Maybe, I know he highly recommended iterative development in the silver bullet essay: http://eppsnet.com/2006/06/respect-the-classics-man-no-silve...
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Re:Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space by james_s_tayler on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:58PM (#21448548)
They had escape velocity.
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Re:Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space by mrbonner on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:14PM (#21447744)
I like your comment but it got down voted into oblivion probably because you forgot the /s tag. Some folks are serious here.
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Re:Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space by saagarjha on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:44PM (#21448023)
Hacker News isn't very accommodating of trite humor in my experience, so I doubt /s would have helped much here.
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Re:Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space by JohnJamesRambo on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:28PM (#21449048)
Check their Slack and ask.
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