> If Agile can be summarized as "employ tighter feedback loops", the whole Agile thing was beyond useless. Not just that, Royce's original paper that coined th

> If Agile can be summarized as "employ tighter feedback loops", the whole Agile thing was beyond useless. Not just that, Royce's original paper that coined the term "waterfall" in 1970[1] can be summarized as "employ tighter feedback loops" compared to top-down design (figures 2-4 in the paper). [1] https://www.praxisframework.org/files/royce1970.pdf https://www.praxisframework.org/files/royce1970.pdf