1.4: Waterfall Ascendant
06/08/23 • 36 min
This episode, we cover the rise of Waterfall to its dominant position over the software industry, find out what it was like in day-to-day practice, learn how it became the official way to make software on both sides of the Atlantic, and discover that old-timers have been complaining that kids these days don't how how to code since at least the 1970s.
For full show transcripts, links to sources, and ways to contact me, please see the show site at https://www.prodfund.com.
Intro and outro music by Jesse Spillane.
This episode, we cover the rise of Waterfall to its dominant position over the software industry, find out what it was like in day-to-day practice, learn how it became the official way to make software on both sides of the Atlantic, and discover that old-timers have been complaining that kids these days don't how how to code since at least the 1970s.
For full show transcripts, links to sources, and ways to contact me, please see the show site at https://www.prodfund.com.
Intro and outro music by Jesse Spillane.
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1.3: Management and Measurement
This episode, we take a pause from the Waterfall vs. IID rivalry to catch up on the management and measurement parts of software development.
We'll track how statistics got its start in the early modern era, through the quotas of the American Industrial Revolution and the analytical surge during the Second World War, and finally on to the rise of Management by Objective at HP and Intel.
For full show transcripts, links to sources, and ways to contact me, please see the show site at https://www.prodfund.com.
Intro and outro music by Jesse Spillane.
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1.5: The Agile Precursors
In the 1990s, the advent of consumer software, the rise of the Internet, and mounting evidence of the failures of Waterfall to deliver results created space for new ideas and new ways of working. Put another way: A righteous solution was failing to handle a wicked problem. Amid all these challenges, the work of two Japanese academics researching successful hardware products planted seeds that would eventually bear fruit in the Scrum and Extreme Programming approaches.
For full show transcripts, links to sources, and ways to contact me, please see the show site at https://www.prodfund.com.
Intro and outro music by Jesse Spillane.
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