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Creative teamwork for quality – A Review of “Sidewinder – Creative Missile Development at China Lake” by Ron Westrum
The development of the Sidewinder missile is a successful example of how to run a creative research and development team. Like the author of this book, Ron Westrum, I don’t care about guided missiles, and, like him, I found this story irresistible[1]. It is intriguing that the methods used to develop the Sidewinder missile echo…
How to get the most from the constraint on your (testing) process – A review of The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford
This book is a novel about the transformation of a company from one that experiences pain when it releases software into one that releases and maintains software easily. We can learn much from the company’s journey. The Phoenix Project is a project that is vital to the company and which experiences many pain points. The…
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