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How the Waterfall Can Dam Up Agility

Posted July 30, 2008 | Leadership | Leadership |

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.

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Tom DeMarco
Tom DeMarco is a Cutter Consortium Fellow. He served on the Editorial Board of Cutter IT Journal (now Amplify) for more than 2 decades. Tom has been a frequent keynoter and moderator at Cutter Summits. Mr. DeMarco is a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild. He was the winner of the 1986 Warnier Prize for "lifetime contribution to the field of computing" and the 1999 Wayne Stevens Prize for "contribution to software methods." His best-selling… Read More
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