How Rocket Science Can Help You Build Your App
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Applies NASA project discipline — requirements, trade studies, heritage checks, traceability, formal reviews — to a small web product and shows concrete results: builds Nanaya as a Django/Python/Postgres app, stages a three‑block launch (block one Jan 15, block two for Valentine’s Day), plans failures and test regimes, and achieves operational traction with 200,000 users since launch while documenting metrics and test plans to keep pivots cheap and reproducible.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Start
- 1:24caveats
- 1:56a tale of two organizations
- 2:15superficial differences
- 7:14don't go chasing terminology
- 19:43critical takeaways
- 20:54down to earth
- 25:18The Nanaya Experiment deployments
- 28:30The Nanaya Experiment Building and V&V
- 29:11how must things change?
- 31:13types of failure
- 34:43toward a framework of frameworks
- 35:45what's next?
- 41:55The Nanaya Experiment the mantra
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