1.3: Management and Measurement
06/01/23 • 28 min
This episode, we take a pause from the Waterfall vs. IID rivalry to catch up on the management and measurement parts of software development.
We'll track how statistics got its start in the early modern era, through the quotas of the American Industrial Revolution and the analytical surge during the Second World War, and finally on to the rise of Management by Objective at HP and Intel.
For full show transcripts, links to sources, and ways to contact me, please see the show site at https://www.prodfund.com.
Intro and outro music by Jesse Spillane.
This episode, we take a pause from the Waterfall vs. IID rivalry to catch up on the management and measurement parts of software development.
We'll track how statistics got its start in the early modern era, through the quotas of the American Industrial Revolution and the analytical surge during the Second World War, and finally on to the rise of Management by Objective at HP and Intel.
For full show transcripts, links to sources, and ways to contact me, please see the show site at https://www.prodfund.com.
Intro and outro music by Jesse Spillane.
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1.2: Intro to Iteration
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.
For full show transcripts, links to sources, and ways to contact me, please see the show site at https://www.prodfund.com.
Intro and outro music by Jesse Spillane.
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1.4: Waterfall Ascendant
This episode, we cover the rise of Waterfall to its dominant position over the software industry, find out what it was like in day-to-day practice, learn how it became the official way to make software on both sides of the Atlantic, and discover that old-timers have been complaining that kids these days don't how how to code since at least the 1970s.
For full show transcripts, links to sources, and ways to contact me, please see the show site at https://www.prodfund.com.
Intro and outro music by Jesse Spillane.
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