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There are definitely shops that adopt e.g. waterfall processes wholesale throughout the org, but broadly I agree with you that most companies can't be painted w
by culturestate 6y ago
There are definitely shops that adopt e.g. waterfall processes wholesale throughout the org, but broadly I agree with you that most companies can't be painted with a single brush.
That does't stop people from doing it, though, and I think he's just trying to make sure that readers don't learn the wrong lesson (eg no course corrections! plan everything and stick to it no matter what!) from this analysis.
- lukasb 6y agoOkay, but surely out of every major tech company, Apple is the closest to waterfall-style? Given what a bad name waterfall has now, that's surely notable. It seems to me that the reason Apple succeeds with a (relatively close to) waterfall style approach is the long term planning / strong point of view the author describes. The more the goalposts move, the more agile you have to be.
- arvinsim 6y agoSetting realistic deadlines is already a big win. In the startups that I have worked with, most of them don't give nearly much time to devs.