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It goes like this: for as long as we are incompletely applying waterfall, someone else will attempt to refactor the natural process and call it something else,
by boffinAudio 5y ago
It goes like this: for as long as we are incompletely applying waterfall, someone else will attempt to refactor the natural process and call it something else, instead of just recognizing and then completing the waterfall process. This will be the state of things until either a) everyone abandons waterfall and/or calls it something else or b) waterfall is just so well understood as a natural law of the industry.
So its really more of a self-fulfilling prophecy situation, and yes in that regard, we are in a cult.
- pjc50 5y agoThis is just "communism can never fail, it can only be failed" but for Waterfall.
- boffinAudio 5y agoInasmuch as software development and communism are both social services, yes. Bad software fails to deliver on the social promise. As does any particularly bad political philosophy.
- Supermancho 5y agoOver time all political philosophy has failed to deliver on promises, because people. Same is probably true of software because, people.