After decades of contemplation, I declare "Waterfall" vs "Agile" as a foundational cognitive tool. good enough to organize society around.
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I actually worded this tweet poorly -- After 2 decades of concept being in the wild, I'm deciding it's robust & not just a buzzword.
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And I guess it's only been 16 years. drats.
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I prefer to go further back and date the Fall of Waterfall to 1961/PDP-1 at MIT hacker lab
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Brief history here. Among my better pieces of for-normies writing
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Damn. This is very good and will directly help me resolve some pressing current issues. Thank you man.
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Interesting! I will check those out — very relevant to current interests. Been curious why IETF is still reputable & W3C is so lackluster
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I think because the W3C operates in a multi-trillion dollar core industry while IETF took root in only a multi-billion dollar marginal one
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