An articulate description of the massive failures of waterfall and outsourcing in government software projects and a good explanation for why Pivotal Labs, its acquirers (Pivotal Software, Inc., VMware, Broadcom) and its cousins (e.g. Artium AI, Rise8, Mechanical Orchard) have been so successful helping clients deliver software with lean/agile methods, particular for the military. Hopefully this book and other efforts by its author, Jennifer Pahlka will lead to more of the same across the rest of the government. https://lnkd.in/g_6uhm8y
Ross Hale
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Great call Pete, and so true. Will definitely give this a read!
Senior Software Engineer
1dI will have to read it. Having worked at the aerospace companies in Southern California for a number of years which required following the mil spec standards for software development with there rigid waterfall model. Nearly anything new might be an improvement. The idiocy of that method would be laughable today considering the changes in the software development models and programming languages used today. I remember lots of work using Snobol to format code into that required spec’s format. Modern day ident but quite awhile ago.