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Re:The Waterfall Model was a straw man argument from the beg... by imbnwa on Monday September 16, 2024 @06:50PM (#41561985)
>It was definitely the dominant conceptual approach, but I think it's an open question how much it was actually followed versus just being the lies everybody agreed to tell the executive caste.

Its funny because that would the inverse of the current situation where exec proclaims their company is agile to external observers and potential hires, but the de facto regime could be anything

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Re:The Waterfall Model was a straw man argument from the beg... by wpietri on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @09:19AM (#41579374)
Great point. And in those faux-Agile environments, you'll definitely sometimes find people just doing the right thing and then finding the right way to lie to JIRA about it.
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