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Like it or not but the waterfall method does make a lot of sense in software development. It may be useless if you're trying to create another billion dollar us
by mariusz79 13y ago
Like it or not but the waterfall method does make a lot of sense in software development. It may be useless if you're trying to create another billion dollar useless web app, but is very helpful when you have to create software for mission-critical applications.
- sandfox 13y ago"mission critical"...
- alextingle 13y agoYeah. Mission critical. It's not just a buzz word - there exists software that is critical to completion of the mission. Examples: Missile guidance system. Space probe communication subroutine.
- nickbauman 13y agoI think Beck explicitly states mission critical as a bad candidate for XP. In reality very few systems are mission critical. And of many mission critical systems, only a small part of the code is actually mission critical.
- cratermoon 13y agoYou mean like healthcare.gov?
- selimthegrim 13y agoI currently work at a company making highly FDA regulated software. We once missed a contract with a big drugmaker due to lack of documentation and QA process standards. The pendulum then swung the other way towards waterfall, to the point where people would write 50-page reports about transferring a database schema from MS SQL to Firebird without mentioning that fact that all the databases had the same username and password sitting in the Registry of the client computers that connected to it for everyone to see. (obviously not anymore). To remove a nonfunctional form field I was once asked to fill out 20 pages of documentation (before I threw a hissy fit and some process Nazis left the company)