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> Waterfall development does not work. < All evidence that I've seen confirms this. Yet, in companies where they practice waterfall, all the evidence in the wor
by yoyar 16y ago
> Waterfall development does not work. <
All evidence that I've seen confirms this. Yet, in companies where they practice waterfall, all the evidence in the world can't seem to convince them of this fundamental problem. The solution is try "more" waterfall, or to alter the process of waterfall. The cognition that it isn't working, despite mountains of evidence just doesn't seem to register. I suppose this is due to an already dysfunctional company culture.
- Joeri 16y agoIt's worse. I've proven, with cold hard numbers, that our waterfall process didn't work and gotten agreement. But I get told that we _have to_ provide a waterfall schedule to some of our key customers (big multinationals) or otherwise they won't believe we'll deliver, because everybody that's not in software knows by now that waterfall is how all real software gets made. le sigh So, what we do know is we make up a waterfall schedule to give to the customer, and then we do our own thing afterwards.