Cultural Barriers to Software Productivity Practices at Los Alamos

Charles R. Ferenbaugh

Cultural Barriers to Software Productivity Practices at Los Alamos

Software Engineering 2015-09-29 v1

Authors: Charles R. Ferenbaugh

Abstract

In recent years, code projects in the nuclear weapons program at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have given increased attention to modern software productivity practices. We found that some of the biggest barriers to adoption of new practices were not technical but cultural. This paper describes several of the cultural differences between the physics and computer science communities at LANL.

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software productivity practices cultural barriers Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear weapons program physics community computer science community code projects

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@article{arxiv.1509.07899,
  title  = {Cultural Barriers to Software Productivity Practices at Los Alamos},
  author = {Charles R. Ferenbaugh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.07899},
  year   = {2015}
}

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2 pages. Submission to Computational Science & Engineering Software Sustainability and Productivity Challenges (CSESSP) Workshop, Rockville, MD, October 15th-16th, 2015

Cultural Barriers to Software Productivity Practices at Los Alamos

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