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On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:43:56 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> You *do* realize that the “waterfall” method (what you described above)
> was only put up as a strawman in a 1970s research paper to advocate for
> more versatile software development techniques? Nobody in the real world
> worked that way -- not successfully. Because it was a recipe for
> producing software that was out of date by the time it shipped.

In most of our interviews the CTO would pop in at some point and ask the 
candidate to explain the waterfall method. Then he would leave and we 
would go back to figuring out what he or she really knew.