Archive for February, 2011
Agile vs Waterfall
February 17th, 2011 | 
Author: Is agile better than waterfall? Or is waterfall better than agile?
Well, it depends!
It depends on your organisation, your staff, your product, your previous methods and processes. If you are happy with your waterfall projects today, why change? If you already are efficient and have high quality, why change? Don’t try to squeeze Scrum into your organization just because you think it is cool and the only way of having fun at the same time as you are really efficient.
And before you dismiss Scrum and Agile be sure you really tried the true Scrum/agile. The Supertester has heard people say things like “We have adopted Scrum to our organisation by taking parts of Scrum. But Scrum is really frustrating and it doesn’t work for us testers.” How can this person know that Scrum doesn’t work when he/she haven’t tried Scrum the way it should be?!
There are pros and cons with both agile and waterfall. Please be open minded and try to see the whole picture!
The supertester couldn’t agree more:
