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Category Archives: Agility

Why serviceability is important

The Phoenix lander found water ice on Mars. That’s cool, but even cooler (from a terribly geeky setup perspective) is the Phoenix team’s need to service the software running on the lander:
The confirming discovery came despite some technical glitches, including an incident with Phoenix’s onboard filing and data storage system that caused the lander to [...]

Posted 21 June 2008 † Bob Arnson § ‡ Comments Off °

Agile smarts

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a big fan of agile development. Turns out it might be responsible not only for great software but enhanced developer brains:
Brain research on rats suggests that voluntary pressure in the form of audacious goals taken on by high performance teams makes them produce more neuron stem cells, rewire the brain, [...]

Posted 26 May 2008 † Bob Arnson § ‡ Comments Off °