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Submit FeedbackSoftware engineers created the waterfall software development method with good intentions. Here's how it works, and why it has been used for decades.
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Recipe for failure: Here's how the waterfall software development method can lead to project delays and failures.
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The waterfall development method failed because it was based on five engineering assumptions that don't work for software.
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Software dev methods changed in a big way over the last 20 years. Here's what life was like under the waterfall, and why practices had to evolve.
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This brief history of computing architecture describes in layman's terms how computing systems evolved from the 1970s through the early 2000s.
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