by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An old person, who was around in the 1970s, looks back at the Waterfall process of software development.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The waterfall process. Of course the pure waterfall doesn\u2019t work, that is why competent persons never used it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Go way back when and realize that graphics programs (Paint, Draw, Misio) weren\u2019t available. It was hard to draw lots of loops and arrows and such in software process diagrams. The Waterfall process was drawn as a downward steps because that\u2019s all we could draw. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Everyone knew you went back and forth and back and forth. We just didn\u2019t draw that picture because we didn\u2019t have drawing tools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, along came lots of incompetent people. They didn\u2019t think much at work and they didn\u2019t read the descriptions in books and papers. Instead, they looked at the one picture and did it that way. It didn\u2019t work. Of course it didn\u2019t work. No one with a brain ever said it would work! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Reality doesn\u2019t appear in a simple block drawing. Who ever thought it would? <\/p>\n\n\n\n So now we have lots of articles about today\u2019s methods that begin by bemoaning our ancestors as stupid waterfall something or others. That is too bad because in some situations\u2014and some of those situations still exist\u2014the waterfall process is the most efficient one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips An old person, who was around in the 1970s, looks back at the Waterfall process of software development. The waterfall process. Of course the pure waterfall doesn\u2019t work, that is why competent persons never used it. Go way back when and realize that graphics programs (Paint, Draw, Misio) weren\u2019t available. It was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[394,32,9,411],"tags":[393,154,132,345],"class_list":["post-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternatives","category-communication","category-management","category-software","tag-alternatives","tag-communication","tag-management","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3201,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions\/3201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}