Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737 Max pilots unprepared

Re:Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737... by pcurve on Sunday December 22, 2019 @12:26AM (#21855376)

"Their idea of agile was to release stuff once every 3 months in a 2 week window."

Can someone explain why this is actually bad?

(EDIT: I'm being serious, so please don't just down vote it without explaining. For airline industry with legacy systems, I don't necessarily think it's bad, but maybe I'm missing something.)

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Re:Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737... by hliyan on Sunday December 22, 2019 @01:52AM (#21855686)

Agile Manifesto[1], principle #3: Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.

There's nothing inherently wrong with this, if 3 months are considered "frequent" in your industry (true for mission/safety critical systems, or systems that should not be upgraded frequently for some reason).

The idea is to deliver small, non-breaking increments to production frequently, rather than infrequent, big bang releases.

1. https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

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Re:Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737... by austhrow743 on Sunday December 22, 2019 @03:40AM (#21855974)

I took it as more of a "only did this one aspect of it" statement more so than a "the one thing they did was bad" statement.

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