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#40 Poisoned Agile with Barry Hawkins

Happy Path Programming

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The Problem With Waterfall

The trouble with waterfall is one, what everybody seized on was part of the problem statement, not the recommendations. It's important that each of these steps be tightly coupled and that you iterate between each step. But our penchant as humans is to want to take an abstraction or a model. We crave simplification and we will try,. I don't think that'll get an explicit attack to over apply an abstraction. And so for me, the moral of what you're saying is that it's like Conway's law, but it's Barry's law. Your software methodology also models your organizational structure.

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