A few days ago someone on Reddit linked to this fastcompany article about the team responsible for building the space shuttle’s on-board software. The main focus of the article is how this team of 260 people consistently releases virtually bug-free software.

This article was really timely for me given some of the Code Camp sessions I attended last weekend. Many of the key points from those sessions were reiterated for me.

Although most of us don’t write software that is not only used in but also controls life and death situations, we as a practitioners of a maturing industry could really benefit by studying and incorporating their practices. The article is a bit long but really worth the read.