Even waterfall teams do 'agile'... whether they realise it or not...

[textile]I've been meaning to post this for a while... From "Jason Gorman's post on the subject:":http://parlezuml.com/blog/?postid=390

"Duncan Pierce":http://duncanpierce.org/ pointed out to me yesterday that, in his experience, teams that claim to be following a waterfall process actually - when the chips are down - go "Agile". I've seen many "stabilisation phases" on waterfall projects that follow the initial customer acceptance testing. In these phases, customers raise a long list of issues that need fixing. But the deadline is looming, so teams have to ask the customer to prioritise these issues so that they can at least find time to fit in the most critical ones. And there tends to be a lot of to-ing and fro-ing with new builds of the system to get customer feedback throughout this stabilisation process.

Oh so true! "Read the rest here...":http://parlezuml.com/blog/?postid=390.