How the Waterfall Can Dam Up Agility

by Tom DeMarco

Any IT manager worth his or her salt can give you at least a dozen reasons why waterfall methods are passé. Yet the semicontractual specification that is the usual result of requirements engineering is clearly a waterfall artifact. What flows over the waterfall is the spec. Even projects that consider themselves "agile" are often of the single waterfall type, with agile methods taking over only after a contractual spec is produced. In addition, projects destined for offshore construction are most often forced into the single waterfall approach.

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How the Waterfall Can Dam Up AgilityWed Jul 30 08:58:11 CDT 2008