Waterfall

Como muchos ya sabemos, esta conocida y ampliamente utilizada metodologia de desarrollo (o modelo de ciclo de vida) de software no funciona. Revisen esta pagina, creada en tono de burla, para que se den una idea de por que....

Waterfall 2006

Algunas secciones destacables (que me hicieron retorcer de risa):

• The Joy of Silence: Cube Farm Designs That Cut Out Conversation
• The Glacial Methodology™ Workshop: A Data-Centric Software Development Process
• WUP: The Waterfall Unified Process
• If It Was Good Enough for Shakespeare: A Fresh Look at the Need for Talent in Software Engineering
• The Economics of Certification
• Testing: Saving the Best for Last
• wordUnit: A Document Testing Framework
• Waterfall Made Easy--The RUP Way
• Stalwart Analysis: The Effluvia of Determined Thought

Finalmente, un pensamiento:

"Waterfalls are wonderful tourist attractions. They are spectacularly bad strategies of organizing software development projects."

Scott Ambler