Scrum, XP, Management and the Ethics of Agile Software Development

Ironic Airways

October 19th, 2007

DSC00689 by Ivana BrosnicTraveling to and from a software dev conference my flights were delayed due to software failures. Both times techs repeatedly rebooted the plane hoping the machine would heal itself.

Also on this trip the crew made the following announcement:

Unfortunately we’ve just learned that our toilets aren’t flushing. We apologize for the inconvenience… We will now be starting our beverage service…

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Comment from >steve
Time: October 19, 2007, 8:26 am

Thank god they haven’t decided to use windows for the avionics systems in planes yet

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