I ran across this somewhat amusing, somewhat sad jab at waterfall development yesterday - Waterfall 2006 - International Conference on Sequential Development.

Funny though it may be (and there are certainly some funny parts), somehow it just doesn’t sit right. Maybe I just haven’t been privy to some sort of methodology war, but the simple truth is that there really are cases where either agile development is inappropriate, just like there are cases where waterfall is inappropriate. In either of these cases, however, at least having some methodology is vastly better than doing everything ad-hoc.

From my experience, methodology choices are very much about choosing what’s appropriate for a given project. I guess what’s bugging me is the attitude that waterfall is never appropriate, which is clearly not the case.

Anyway, I’m not going to delve into it all now (though I am trying to get back the the SE reading group stuff). If you’re willing to put the attitude aside, however, there’s some funny stuff in there.

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