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The Waterfall Process Distilled

Started by jhannes · 2 months ago

Based on the US Department of Defense standard DOD-STD-2167A, we have a well-defined process often referred to as Waterfall. If you are not familiar with the process, here is a short introduction.
A project in the waterfall process goes through four phases before the project is completed.
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  • This sounds very familiar, all though all projects I have attended were supposed to be iterative from the start...
  • I have been wondering if this process leaves both proponents of waterfall and iterative development feeling vindicated. With waterfall-tinted glasses, it looks like the project was successfull, but the plan "failed a little". With iterative-tinted glasses, we might not notice that many iterative projects build on the architecture of "failed" waterfalls...

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