Chapter 12
Agile Technology
Software developers have been battling the challenge of creating complex software projects since the first program was written. Even in the infancy of computers, the challenge of programming with primitive tools pushed the limits of what people could accomplish. Seminal books on project management such as Mythical Man Month, written in the sixties, address challenges that are seen to this day.
Complexity is Not New
The complex Apollo program was almost undone by unanticipated glitches in the Lunar Module’s navigation and guidance computer in the final seconds before the historic landing. That computer had only 4,000 words of memory1 (one-millionth of the memory in a typical desktop computer).
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