SAFe — Scaled Agile or Niagara Falls?

The term waterfall has been used since Winston Royce’s original 1970 paper. The paper Managing the Development of Large Software Systems describes the typical waterfall process as a risky and inviting failure.

Example of a waterfall process

The waterfall process relies heavily on initial requirements. However, if these requirements are not documented precisely, or there was a misunderstanding around the detail of what the…