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No the Waterfall model and BS 5750/ ISO9000 both originated in traditional engineering - back in the day I actually worked on research to apply BS5750 to softwa
by walshemj 9y ago
No the Waterfall model and BS 5750/ ISO9000 both originated in traditional engineering - back in the day I actually worked on research to apply BS5750 to software development.
- fapjacks 9y agoWhat the parent means is: Can you point to any other (faddish) methodology that didn't come about in that way? Also, waterfall was provided in the original paper as a minimally-viable methodology of software development which was specifically recommended against. A kind of "If it comes down to using waterfall or using nothing, I guess use waterfall" type of thing.
- walshemj 9y agoask the USA and UK MotorBike and Car industry about the "faddish" methodology the Japanese companies used to hand them their ass
- fapjacks 9y agoBut we're not talking about "the USA and UK MotorBike and Car industry" now are we? Or, you know, really anything but software development methodologies?
- Nomentatus 9y agoActually, I'd say the statistical methods used by the Japanese (mostly to zero in on sub-par team members by shuffling them through teams and measuring the results) do have some similarity to test driven development, and even the sort of frequent (rough) measurement that Agile allows.