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by drewcoo 1400 days ago
> Also, "Waterfall" never really existed.

That part is true.

> It was a straw man invented to sell this Agile bukkake.

That part is colorful, but retconning. A fellow named Royce coined the term in 1970 and used it as a strawman for common project iteration organization (V-model?) a the time.

I agree with most of the spirit of the rest of the parent's screed, though not with all the details.