Re: IESG Statement: Support Documents in IETF Working Groups

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 16 November 2016 09:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: IESG Statement: Support Documents in IETF Working Groups
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On 9 Nov 2016, at 08:44, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
> 
> the waterfall development
> model, which was demolished in The Mythical Man Month over 40 years
> ago.

(Actually, it was introduced in a paper in 1970 that already explained why it doesn’t work very well.)

Grüße, Carsten