Software Development Methods to Mars

EXPLAINING SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODS BY FLYING TO MARS THE WATERFALL METHOD YOU WANT TO GO TO MARS YOU BUILD A ROCKET YOU TEST THE ROCKET YOU GO TO MARS AGILE DEVELOPMENT YOU GO TO MARS, BUT PROBABLY YOU START BUILDING A ROCKET YOU THEN WANT TO GO TO URANUS YOU GO TO THE MOON THE KANBAN METHOD YOU WANT TO GO TO MARS YOU SPLIT THE WORK INTO THOUSANDS OF TINY PIECES ONE YEAR LATER YOU ARE STILL WAITING FOR THE ARMRESTS TO BE DONE SCRUM YOU WANT TO BUILD ARMRESTS FOR A ROCKET SEAT YOU DISAPPEAR FOR A MONTH TO WORK ON IT YOU FAIL TO BUILD ARMRESTS. AFTER A 15-MINUTE MEETING YOU DECIDE TO START OVER LEAN DEVELOPMENT YOU WANT TO GO TO MARS, BUT YOU HAVE NO MONEY YOU ADD WINGS A FIRECRACKER YOU TRY TO CONVINCE INVESTORS THAT IT MAY FLY SOME DAY, MAYBE

The comic explains software development methodologies through increasingly absurd attempts to fly to Mars. Waterfall builds and tests everything before launch, Agile changes the destination, Kanban gets stuck on tiny tasks, Scrum repeatedly starts over, and Lean launches a cheap improvised vehicle. It is used as a humorous reaction to project-management chaos and the stereotypes of software development processes.

• @ithueti / 15354 2025-02-26