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waterfall development

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waterfall development

An information system development project that proceeds sequentially from the requirements stage to the implementation stage without delivering working pieces in between and without obtaining customer feedback on the way. With such large projects, once each stage is completed, it cannot be easily reversed, much like falling water. Contrast with agile software development.



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The fact that LiveQuality products are developed specifically for e-business applications, which do not follow the traditional client/server waterfall development model, but rather a component based, continuous deployment model, establishes Segue as the clear choice for companies such as Release in implementing their e-commerce solutions
The IS legacy is clear: the waterfall development process didn't work so well for structured programming languages, but it is guaranteed to fail for object programming.
 
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