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Re: Waterfall and Dr. Winston Royce: msg#00039

programming.scrum.general

Subject: Re: Waterfall and Dr. Winston Royce



Mike Cohn wrote:
> I think the popularity of waterfall is that everything degrades into
> waterfall model to some extent.

> Even a fairly extreme shift like Kent Beck's Test-Driven Development is
> a waterfall to some extent: find a requirement, write a test (that
> fails), write the code, retest, refactor. All repeated on a scale of
> minutes.
>

I often say that the only problem with waterfalls is when they are too
large. It's reasonable to kayak the Rogue River, it isn't wise to Kayak
over Niagara Falls

Martin


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