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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 57 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh yes, everyone know that waterfall works and the rest sucks, nice

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

If the shoe fits ...

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A good team can make any of these strategies work. A bad team will make a mockery out of them all. Most teams are neither good or bad, and stumble forward, or backwards, doing the motions

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Waterfall is much more expensive than any of the agile methods, even with good requirement gathering and management

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

In some situations with some people yes. It’s really hard to separate the project and team.

Usually, projects I have seen start with the best plans and methods, or at least vague good intentions, but later pretend they never met them. Like a cheap date.

There are some projects that naturally lend themselves to one approach or other, and they last longer following the original guidelines ; but if a project lives long enough these guidelines become the enemy.

I think the only projects that follow any set of guidelines for longer than a few years; they have a narrow purpose for being. Straightforward evolution or needs