First of all: let me start by showing my age. I was born in 1973, and yes, that does mean that there's a big, and I mean BIG, party coming later this year. Big Five Oh looming around the corner - and to be honest I am very, very fine with that. I am happy with my age - except when I am being dropped like a baby at the back of the cycling bunch. Then not so much - dammit.What does my age have to do with anything? Well - it basically means that I grew up with a very, very different type of software development practice. OO was still young. The mythical man-month was still a thing. And methodologies all depended on strict, rigid waterfall development models.
Nothing wrong with the odd waterfall, of course, but with the emergence of more and more, and better and better, software tools, libraries and frameworks - this whole idea of the time consuming waterfall process has kind of become irrelevant. Who would still go through this entire process and ask their users to wait for months before they would be able to give any feedback? What users would accept that type of arrogance on behalf of their IT department? Seriously?