The coolest thing about a waterfall process is that it allows me personally to succeed, to demonstrate skill and competence, while the end result of the process is a dismal failure. Cleverly built into a waterfall process are a variety of scapegoating mechanisms that allow us to blame other people, or outside influences for failure.
- Jeff Patton.
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…or, another way to put it, it doesn’t matter how good you are in an Agile project; if other people fail, you’ll get the blame.
See, I can write biased opinions too, and without individually biased words like ‘scapegoating’ :-)
(It should be obvious that Jeff missed out his essential assumption of “if you’re enough of a snivelling whiner to use them to cover your own failings” compared to the healthier assumption of “they allow you to work out what needs to be fixed without throwing out the baby with the bathwater”)