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Re:Requirements volatility is the core problem of software e... by throwaway15392 on Saturday February 22, 2020 @03:56AM (#22390067)
That’s a really interesting perspective. I’m doing a waterfall on my current project and it just feels more right
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Re:Requirements volatility is the core problem of software e... by EliRivers on Saturday February 22, 2020 @05:57AM (#22390372)
Each software development methodology seems to be about mitigating particular risks.

Agile seems to be mitigating the customer not knowing what they want the software to do; tiny little software cycles, little steps, making the customer look at it frequently and saying what they think.

There are software projects with high-quality customers (sadly so rare) for which that risk is much lower, and as such agile is a bad fit. There are certainly software projects where waterfall is a better fit, mitigating against different risks.

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