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Re:Agile as a full-featured religious dogma (2016) by ravenstine on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:04PM (#20854885)
Has any software or creative company ever actually adopted "waterfall"? It seems like a straw man used to criticize inefficient processes and promote Agile, but has it ever been implemented in the way that it's described?

More importantly, is there any actual evidence that Agile is works better than alternatives?

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Re:Agile as a full-featured religious dogma (2016) by cglong on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:14PM (#20854945)
I was on a team at Microsoft that was strictly Waterfall; our business reps wanted to release functionality in six month cycles, so Waterfall was a good fit.

We eventually moved to Lean (a type of Agile) which worked well with this six-month requirement. It gave engineers the ability to work on different pieces and in whatever order they pleased, as long as everything landed in the six-month block.

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Re:Agile as a full-featured religious dogma (2016) by jiveturkey on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @11:10AM (#20867234)
> Has any software or creative company ever actually adopted "waterfall"?

Yes, plenty.

I once worked at a CMM level 4 company. Network hardware vendor, before the days that FPGA was really useful. You had to get your shit right, the first time.

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Re:Agile as a full-featured religious dogma (2016) by stcredzero on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:17PM (#20854966)
Has any software or creative company ever actually adopted "waterfall"?

Yes. My last company was squarely "Waterfall" (though it wasn't called that) and is moving to "Agile."

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