Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Waterfall is the appropriate tool for any environment where benefits realization is clearly understood, the final design can be engineered up front, and job steps can be sequenced before work begins." Otherwise known as "never". 192
Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You'd be choosing to get feedback when - if any of your root assumptions turn out not to be correct - it would be too late to do much about it. Why would you deliberately take that risk? What would be the harm in getting feedback earlier? 220
Peter Ritchie @peterritchie.com · 01/10/2026I feel like "waterfall" is often a hindsight observation: it wasn't planned, but no one prioritised feedback or never had access to it. So that's what ended up happening. All the same risks and expected outcomes. 000
Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk · 01/10/2026Mass production of standard widgets to an established specification using existing tooling Or, small changes to an existing stable system to reflect a change that has already happened in the business using the system So there are cases, but only at the tail end of the engineering lifecyclejonayre.uk 000
