Hate me for it but iterated waterfall was the best time of my life and I still think it’s far superior to agile.
My first job, we actually took time to think about the system design. Being forced to get proper quality insurance manager approval before moving to build meant you couldn’t cut corners and having a proper testing team running a full qualification on what was produced meant things were always tested in depth from the point of view of a user before release.
Every parts of the system were properly documented and we had proper tooling allowing us to go from system design to component design all the way to a specific version test results which was incredibly nice when trying to understand what was happening.
Everyone was working on multiple components being in different phase at the same time so there was no downtime and you would just restart design of a new version as soon as you got back feedbacks from qualification.
I have probably never been as productive in my life and everything was working like a well oiled machine. Every agile project I have ever worked on is a complete mess.
My first job, we actually took time to think about the system design. Being forced to get proper quality insurance manager approval before moving to build meant you couldn’t cut corners and having a proper testing team running a full qualification on what was produced meant things were always tested in depth from the point of view of a user before release.
Every parts of the system were properly documented and we had proper tooling allowing us to go from system design to component design all the way to a specific version test results which was incredibly nice when trying to understand what was happening.
Everyone was working on multiple components being in different phase at the same time so there was no downtime and you would just restart design of a new version as soon as you got back feedbacks from qualification.
I have probably never been as productive in my life and everything was working like a well oiled machine. Every agile project I have ever worked on is a complete mess.