Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

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The first was how the Skunk Works defined its mission: "to develop low cost and rapid prototypes to achieve extremely difficult but specific objectives." The combination of extreme difficulty and extreme specificity is the recipe for innovation. The lift-and-shift approach moves an app and its data from one environment to another. Understanding what's involved can help a ... Because only a few people will be used in engineering, design and most other areas, you need to reward the team based on their performance, not the number of people they supervise. A timeless innovation framework

IT teams can connect their Managed Google Play accounts to Intune to get the best of both management tools. Integrate the two for... Ben Rich, the second director of the Skunk Works, writes a fun account of his views on aviation, engineering, and procurement politics. The Skunk Works was an elite brotherhood devoted towards the best in aviation, with rules to minimize management bullshit and keep every engineer within a stone's throw of the production floor. Rich discusses in detail his work on the F-117 stealth fighter, the U-2, and the SR-71, with dips into Navy stealth boats ("never work for the Navy, they don't know what they want and they'll break your heart"), and the red tape of military bureaucracy. Today you can find the term “skunk works” in any dictionary, mainly defined as “a small laboratory or department of a large company used for doing new scientific research or developing new products.” How to set up a skunk works teamThere must be a minimum number of reports required, but important work must be recorded thoroughly.

He knew they would deliver because Skunk Works had done it before. They had a system of working together that made the impossible-possible. After arriving at the visitor’s center, guests are escorted — sometimes by van, often through underground tunnels, always under close watch — throughout the campus to avoid seeing too much. Roughly 85 percent of the work done here is classified.Expanding its partnership with Red Hat, Dell is now offering OpenShift as a validated appliance for on-premises container ... Isolated, a Skunk Works team is protected from the corporate bureaucracy that often freezes innovation. Despite the Tom Clancy recommendation glaring on the cover of this edition, Skunk Works isn't a bad read. Whatever the writing skills of engineer Rich, cowriter Janos's collaboration with him resulted in an engrossing text. Of course I've long had a special interest in the history of espionage, so the subject-matter went far towards keeping me involved.