While we may think of the Waterfall as the original way to make software, the philosophy of moving fast and making small changes -- called iterative and incremental development -- dates back just as far. Today we're tracking how IID got its start in classic early 20th century manufacturing and evolved through pioneering NASA projects into an important precursor of how we work today. Plus, we'll cover the first rise and fall of the "cross-functional team" at the US Navy and at a long-gone giant of the early computer industry.
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Intro and outro music by Jesse Spillane.
05/25/23 • 24 min
Product Fundamentals - 1.2: Intro to Iteration
Transcript
Hello friends, and welcome back to the Product Fundamentals podcast, episode 2: Intro to Iteration.
In this season, we are tracking the evolution of how we came to make software in the weird way we do, from the earliest origins of our methods, through to today.
[Intro]
Last time, we discussed the Waterfall methodology, including its lasting articulation by aerospace executive Winston Royce in a 1970 paper. But that process-heavy, top-down, one-shot approach
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