The First Moonshot - Agile Principles in the Ranger Program - Mark Shead

Early space missions hardly seem like a place to get inspiration about Agile software development, but the first probes sent to the moon successfully used a number of the principles that modern teams strive to implement in following Agile. Looking at the historical usage of these principles in important endeavors of the past provides insight and understanding in how to best leverage them in our work to develop great software today.