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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It wasn't, Waterfall in itself was a contrived example of a bad setup. More common was UP, or something UP-like.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Never heard of UP, what is that?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Unified process, which, despite usually not being called that way and/or being codified in the way it is nowadays, is how virtually all early software companies did their development work post-punchcards (when you no longer had to get things done in a single step).

    It's why the "agile is better because iterative hoooo!" is so laughable, because even though we didn't yet call it iterative - as a distinction from pre-planned, since we thought in punchcards+mainframe vs after that - we did iterative work. Of course we did, software development is naturally iterative and Waterfall was the contrived contrasting example of how a non-iterative process would look.

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