Review – Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions

Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions

Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions: A Catalogue of Modern Software Engineering Paradigms, Peter DeGrace and Leslie Hulet Stahl, Prentice-Hall, 1990.
This book is a critique of the waterfall model, and a description of a number of alternative models. It has an early description of Sashimi and Scrum applied to software. (Sashimi draws overlapping phases like slices of fish; Scrum gives a team a goal around which it can self-organize.) This book is mostly of historical and background interest. (Reviewed Nov., ’03)