Nice comic, though my experience with waterfall is more like this:
You want to go to mars
you propose a specification for plans for a rocket that can fly to mars
management says the specification is not precise enough
you iterate on the specification for the plans
managment approves the specification, but only after changing it so that the engine must use kerosene instead of liquid hydrogen as proposed, because they still have a couple of tons of it lying around in the basement.
You make the rockets plans according to the specification and determine manpower allocation, milestones and deadlines.
Management asks why the timetables in the plans are longer than the first estimates. You explain that it is because the kerosene engine is harder to integrate with the rest than the originally assumed engine, but they donât want to hear it. They approve the plans, but cut your timetables in half.
you start building the rocket. Somebody hits a contradiction in the specifications that went unnoticed and were introduced by switching out the engine.
You change the specification and take it back to managment for re-approval. Management needs a month to get their head around what the problem is in the first place. Meanwhile, the whole team is on hold because there is zero compartmentalisation of individual parts of the specification.
This repeats a few times. You eventually finish some rocket that took double as long to produce than assumed, cost three times as much and can only fly to the moon.
Management launches the rocket to Mars anyways, patting each other on the back for a job well done and increasing their bonuses.
Before reaching Mars, the rocket explodes. Management blames you. Hopefully you still have all your email history where you explained time and time again that exactly this was going to happen.
I remember watching a video that described something like this as the reason for the Challenger exploding 17 seconds after launch --killing the crew of seven people. Canât find it now, though.
One person kept telling them about the problem but they went ahead anyway.
What do you choose (when youâve just finished hosing down 58 or so Monstrosities for Nadaâs and Poloâs âExterminate XX Monstrositiesâ-type Nexus quest)âŚ?
HmmmâŚtried to work a daily mission and as I was just about to pick up the last pile of poo to finish the task, my whole mission vanished from my Log. The Nexus still shows the mission as active but I have no progressionâŚwhat to do with the giant pile of ⌠?
So I decided to hunt piratesâŚmission vanished as soon as I exited the Anomaly. And I received this curious message
Something is afoot
Ok. I was able to kill biological horrors. I kept experiencing the earthquakes that rock an MP enabled weekend event, except this was not a weekend event and MP was disabled.
I just moved to a different system because the daily Quicksilver missions continued to send me to the same places and the resources that Iâd consumed over multiple weeks had not regrown. Now working close to the center of the galaxy.
That absolutely drives me nuts with the Nexus missions. Specific missions types always send you to the same places to do them. One system of mine is constantly chosen for about 80% of the missions. In the past I could shake things up by summoning the Nexus from different systems, but this has not been particularly successful since Synthesis. An entire galaxy to choose from, and it keeps picking the same one system.