Product Fundamentals Jordan Phillips

Send us a Text Message.To understand why we make software the way that we do, we start from the beginning, with the earliest programmable computers, exponential growth, NATO's first "software engineers," and Winston Royce's articulation of the Waterfall.Support the Show.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.

Send us a Text Message.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 ...

Send us a Text Message.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.Support the Show.For full show transcripts, links to sources, and ways to contact me, ...

Send us a Text Message.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.Support the Show.For full show transcripts, links to sources, and ways to contact me, please see the show site at https://...

Send us a Text Message.In the 1990s, the advent of consumer software, the rise of the Internet, and mounting evidence of the failures of Waterfall to deliver results created space for new ideas and new ways of working. Put another way: A righteous solution was failing to handle a wicked problem. Amid all these challenges, the work of two Japanese academics researching successful hardware products planted seeds that would eventually bear fruit in the Scrum and Extreme Programming approaches.Su...

Send us a Text Message.As the dot-com bubble came crashing down, a group of "organizational anarchists" got together at a ski resort and created the Agile Manifesto, finally providing a common banner for incremental software people. One of the most successful offshoots of Agile would be Lean Software, which took its foundations from Toyota's lean manufacturing system and brought it to software, setting the stage for the startup wave that was to soon follow.Support the Show.For full show trans...