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The Hype Cycle Chart you refer too is based on the Gardner model (which is a decade old): > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

Waterfall is stuck in 'disillusionment', and didn't move forward into enlightenment/productivity. Again, this should get more context on the arguments and context of why something is where :)



Ah okay, even if it's old, I still think this form of representation is misleading.


The graph is supposed to gauge a progress of a new technology, but a single line is not enough. The progress is nonlinear, with jumps and more.

Waterfall is strictly superceded by heavy iterative procedures.




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