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What is less known is that the author of the waterfall model Winston W. Royce recommended doing the entire process TWICE: https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2012/03
by fzeindl 2y ago
What is less known is that the author of the waterfall model Winston W. Royce recommended doing the entire process TWICE:
https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/why-waterfall-was-a-big-misunderstanding-from-the-beginning-reading-the-original-paper/ https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/why-waterfall-was-a...
It is hard to foresee how the world of development would look like today, had companies used the waterfall process twice on each project.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y agoThat's how I did waterfall. We would go through all the requirements, group things that were related, and assign them to a developer who owned them. Repeat until there are no more unsatisfied requirements.
- oneshtein 2y agoMany successful rewrites are Waterfalls, regardless of method used for first time.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoBy the second time, you actually have a reasonable chance of knowing what the requirements should have been the first time. They might even be valid for the rewrite, if things aren't moving too fast.
- wrycoder 2y agoHere's the Royce paper. Check out page three. [0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/41765.41801 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/41765.41801