I think you'd find an agile sprint actually isn't a mini-waterfall at all. It'd be more accurate to say each story goes through its own mini-waterfall, but eve

I think you'd find an agile sprint actually isn't a mini-waterfall at all. It'd be more accurate to say each story goes through its own mini-waterfall, but even that's wrong as the stages are almost completely different and not in the same order. For example, few teams write requirements beyond the story's acceptance criteria, specifications are almost never written, testing occurs throughout the lifecycle, and maintenance would come in the form of another story. They actually are very different methodologies.