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Agile compared to waterfall: Part 2

Agile compared to waterfall: Part 2

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Agile compared to waterfall: Part 2

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- [Instructor] If we continue now comparing the waterfall method and model with Agile and talking about where waterfall may make sense and how you use the two together, I've got a couple of important thoughts. First, the waterfall method is focused on phases. And what I always recommend to my clients that are talking about adding Agile into their waterfall methodologies, ask where you can and how much you can. And it may be different in each phase or each stage. A common example I frequently give is the process of baking bread. And here's an example of where waterfall is really the only way you could do it. If you talk about what bread is, it's flour, it's yeast, and it's water. Those products by themselves, or those ingredients in and of themselves, are not bread. You can mix them together in a bowl, and they're still not bread. You can let them rise in the bowl, and they're still not bread. They're not bread until it's baked. And what we have, is we have a series of stages where…

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