>> you are locked-in to a largely "waterfall" model of development. That's way out of fashion for good reason. I once worked on a multi-million dollar "agile"

>> you are locked-in to a largely "waterfall" model of development. That's way out of fashion for good reason. I once worked on a multi-million dollar "agile" project that went off the rails until a decision was made to switch to a waterfall approach. This is not to to say that "waterfall" is good and "agile" is bad. If your methodology doesn't suit the culture of the people you have delivering the project, you're going to fail no matter what. The problem is that these pm techniques get adopted organization-wide by executives who became "experts" by reading a few articles and books but don't spend any time becoming experts at the type of people they have working for them.