A couple of years ago I was asked by a client if they should “Go Agile”. I just stumbled on this graphic which perfectly sums up my response at the time. Basically, if your organisation has a fixed budget, fixed timeframe and fixed set of deliverables, that’s pretty much what Waterfall was designed for and it’s worked well for decades.
When Waterfall makes sense: Government contracts, regulatory compliance projects, infrastructure implementations where requirements are well-defined upfront and changes are expensive. You know exactly what needs to be delivered, you have a fixed budget and timeline, and scope changes require formal approval processes. Waterfall excels here.
When Agile makes sense: Product development where user needs evolve as you learn more. Software projects where requirements emerge through experimentation. Situations where delivering working functionality early and iterating based on feedback creates better outcomes than planning everything upfront.
This article was first published on LinkedIn and is also on the ENVEE Digital blog.
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