Re:Acephalic Agile: Worse than Waterfall?
by msla on Thursday May 17, 2018 @05:44PM
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> In software, in my opinion, fewer problems are well understood at the moment, and so we tend to avoid waterfall.
Or if the problem is that well-understood, there's an off-the-shelf solution so good nobody seriously thinks about re-implementing it.
> However, if someone wanted me to set up a webserver to serve static files that don't change? I'm 99% sure I could set up nginx on a virtual machine "fully waterfall" and have no problems.
Exactly. That's barely software development. That's using fully-commoditized components in well-understood fashions to achieve a well-understood goal.
Or if the problem is that well-understood, there's an off-the-shelf solution so good nobody seriously thinks about re-implementing it.
> However, if someone wanted me to set up a webserver to serve static files that don't change? I'm 99% sure I could set up nginx on a virtual machine "fully waterfall" and have no problems.
Exactly. That's barely software development. That's using fully-commoditized components in well-understood fashions to achieve a well-understood goal.
You could script that. I'm sure some places have.