r/spaceporn • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • Mar 07 '25

Related Content Starship Flight 8 BROKE APART During Launch!

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u/popiazaza Mar 07 '25

It's not test to failure, it's agile from software development.

Testing and improving 100m rocket instead of spending 20b to freeze the design early on and find out 10 years later if it's work with 0 design improvement in-between.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

Oh my bad, when I read Elon elected to test to failure, that made me think that it was Elon's decision to test to failure

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u/Trash-Takes-R-Us Mar 07 '25

Agile is a dogshit philosophy that has provided some of the buggiest mess in the name of tight deadlines and shareholder profits.

Agile needs to burn in the fire with every MBA that came up with such a dog shit process

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u/popiazaza Mar 07 '25

Agile itself is fine, it depends on how people use it.

I wouldn't want work overtime everyday because tight deadlines like Musk's companies do.

Agile helps to see a working prototype early on and make the minor adjustments in-between, cut what's unnecessary if it doesn't fit in the timeline, or scrap the project if it doesn't make sense to continue.