These include PRINCE2 which was created by the UK government and remains popular in the UK public sector and PMI PMP which is more internationally recognised. There are several well known and widely implemented waterfall methodologies that are used on IT projects. In waterfall methodologies all the requirements gathering and design work is done before any coding takes place.
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Royce is commonly credited with the first formal description in an article from 1970 in which he described a flawed software development model.) The waterfall was only codified when people subsequently realised that it wasn’t the only way of doing things. Rather it was inherited by enterprise software developers from other industries where, once a particular phase of production is complete (like laying the foundations of a building for example), it was incredibly costly or impractical to go back and make changes.
The waterfall model is one in which each phase of a product’s life cycle takes place in sequence, so that progress flows steadily downwards through these phases like a waterfall. But what’s the difference between the two – and is Agile always better? Traditional waterfall methods for developing software are rapidly declining in popularity as more recently developed Agile methodologies are increasingly adopted.
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