Archive for category waterfall
Stop Blaming Waterfall
Posted by David Bland in agile, lean, waterfall on July 19, 2011
I’m here to let you in on a little secret, waterfall isn’t the reason your project failed. Waterfall isn’t the reason you were fired. Waterfall isn’t the epitome of evil in the world of software development.
Blaming waterfall for all of your woes is not unlike blaming the screwdriver you used to paint your wall. It isn’t the screwdriver’s fault you chose the wrong tool for the job.
Waterfall works well when both the problem and the solution are known.
Since I always get chastised for this statement, let me clarify that I’m not the first person to state this and also let me clarify that we never fully know anything.
So if I were to rephrase this for the word police, it would be:
Waterfall works well when both the problem and the solution are mostly known.. … [Read More]
An X on the Agile Waterfall Lifeline
Posted by David Bland in agile, waterfall on January 20, 2010
Over these last few months, I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with people across the country about their thoughts on agile transformations. In doing so, I noticed a recurring theme. We tend to categorize companies, or subsets of companies as Agile or Waterfall. At best, openly categorizing in this manner is an over simplification; at [...]
