Month: April 2008
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Kelly Johnson and Agile Development
In a previous post about the F-117, I described some of the rules Kelly Johnson had for his projects. As promised, here is how I would map Kelly’s rules to agile development. Kelly: 1. The Skunk Works manager must be delegated practically complete control of his program in all aspects. He should report to a…
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Follow up to high stakes salvage
A Crushing Issue: How to Destroy Brand-New Cars Last month, I pointed out an article about salvaging a ship in trouble. The salvage crew successfully saved the ship and its cargo of 4,703 Mazda vehicles (loosing one life in the process), but now what do you do with the cars? Turns out, it’s not easy…
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POPSignal – Boston, May 15th
Those of you in Boston may remember Tech Cocktail last fall. If you were one of the lucky 300+ people in attendance, you know how successful it was. I know I enjoyed it, and I met some great new contacts there. Well, Brian Balfour and Jay Meattle are at it again, but now it is…
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Continuing the Lockheed Skunk Works Theme
The History Behind the F-35B Continuing the theme of the Lockheed Skunk Works, this is an interesting take on the development of the shaft-driven fan on the F-35B. The inventor discusses how he came up with the idea and how the system works. Like any good research project, there was a risk of failure, but…
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Ruby Background Tasks with Starling – Part 3
In my previous post, I went over the changes I made to Workling to add threading and allow it to run for long periods. Now, we need to deploy and monitor everything. In the Linux word, there are several options, but monit seems to be the most popular. However, I wanted to give god.rb a…