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I mean... there's no correct application of waterfall. The whole waterfall process comes from a paper as an example of how not to run an engineering project Th
by gaius 8y ago
I mean... there's no correct application of waterfall. The whole waterfall process comes from a paper as an example of how not to run an engineering project
That is a very strange thing to say considering that the method comes from "real" branches of engineering (mech, civil, electrical, etc) and you can simply look around you at your built environment to know that it has delivered an awful lot of real, actual stuff. They didn't agile up the building you're sitting in or the roads that lead to it or power station that makes it work or any of the things in it.
- gowld 8y ago> They didn't agile up the building you're sitting in Do you know where I'm sitting? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Buildings_Learn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Buildings_Learn
- richliss 8y agoIt's not a very strange thing to say at all - It's the truth. The Waterfall software method is a result of a misunderstanding by the DoD. Waterfall as far as software is concerned has its origins in a paper from Winston W. Royce and not an unguided adoption of mech/civil/electrical engineering principles: http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Process/waterfall.pdf http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2003/cmsc838p/Process/wate...
- monocasa 8y agoHave you worked in those fields? I worked as a commercial interiors contractor, then worked in embedded systems doing (among other things) board design and layout. These fields have plenty of iteration that has to occur. Pretty much no one ships a rev A board, chip, or bridge (the bridges get built out in solidworks).