Process

When people talk about AI and jobs, they almost always mean developers. The larger part of the working world sits elsewhere, in offices, in HR, in marketing, in administration. In episode 3 of Prompt & Proper, Steffen Ochsenreither from Swiss Post and I look exactly there. And we quickly land on a point that has nothing to do with technology. The episode is in German, and this post captures the core of the conversation.

Waterfall and Agile are not just two flavours of project management. They are two fundamentally different ways of dealing with uncertainty. If you understand that, the rest follows. Waterfall: Linear and Sequential # Waterfall is a linear sequential life cycle model. The team only moves to the next phase if the previous one finished successfully. Requirements first, then design, then implementation, then testing, then deployment, then operation. Each phase has a hand-off and a sign-off. Each phase produces a document that the next phase consumes.