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The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Solving problems, user-centered design, and culture at NASA.In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Jay Trimble, mission operations and ground data system manager, for the Resource Prospector Lunar Rover Mission at NASA. We talk about applying Agile, adopting design thinking and user-centered design, and what he and his team rely on to design and build software for mission control.Here are some highlights from our conversation: Agile at NASA As far as Agile goes in my group, it was probably around 10 years ago when we started to become Agile; we didn't really set out with a stated goal of being Agile, at least not in the beginning.  We were having issues with our software development and we were trying to make it better, and by iteratively solving problems, we found we were starting to match—what was then certainly much less mainstream than it is now—the Agile method. We had a six-month delivery cycle. We would take a set of requirements, and then we'