A LESSON IN CONFLICT MITIGATION: INTEGRATING DIVERGENT DESIGN PHILOSOPHIES
The Mars Rover Design Team is dedicated to building a next generation rover that will one day assist astronauts in the field. The complexity of such a project increases when the two conflicting design philosophies of agile software development and traditional waterfall development must work in ta...
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International Foundation for Telemetering
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624247 http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/624247 |
| Summary: | The Mars Rover Design Team is dedicated to building a next generation rover that will one day
assist astronauts in the field. The complexity of such a project increases when the two conflicting
design philosophies of agile software development and traditional waterfall development must
work in tandem in order to design and construct a rover within a year. Agile software
development promotes the flexible, testdriven
production of coinciding design aspects, while
the waterfall design philosophy relies on thorough planning and rigid, sequential design
schedules. The project managers of the team work to balance these opposing philosophies by
fostering individual interests, allowing team members to select their own focus areas within a
wide variety of mission critical tasks. This practice accelerates the design and construction of the
rover and in turn creates the momentum needed to achieve a common goal while consolidating
both agile software and traditional waterfall development. |
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