Waterfall is a 45 year old strawman, born to be a whipping boy: http://jayacarl.blogspot.se/2009/01/waterfall-model-not-what-was-intended.html http://jayacarl.b

Waterfall is a 45 year old strawman, born to be a whipping boy: http://jayacarl.blogspot.se/2009/01/waterfall-model-not-what-was-intended.html http://jayacarl.blogspot.se/2009/01/waterfall-model-not-what... I don't know why we are obsessed with that bogey man. While there are some places that use waterfall, sometimes with good reason (things where the spec is critical), the most common state of unenlightened software engineering certainly isn't to have big design up front. It's to have design on a napkin and lousy communication with stakeholders, more wild west than waterfall.