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Development Methods (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 154 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, but waterfall requires that management knows what they want. It's impossible!

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 74 points 5 days ago

This but unironically

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago

So often it's patience from stakeholders to allow for time to actually design and build the things, or willingness to admit the actual cost, or an impossible grand vision with an unqualified/understaffed team, and of course reprioritizing constantly as if it's easy to resume later without paying ramp up.

Don't get me started on the constant detailed status reports...

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 days ago

Yeah, it requires replacing the "you test the rocket" with "you test the rocket and it fails or doesn't meet the updated mission specifications" and the "you go to mars" with "you want to go to mars"