State of Indiana Makes Using Waterfall SDLCs a Criminal Offense

[Daryl Kulak]

Here is a great (belated) April Fool's joke on TechDarkSide.com. Funny!

”Waterfall software development lifecycles have terrorized technology projects in this state for too long,” Governor Mitch Daniels said at a simple signing ceremony held at a meeting of the Central Indiana chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI). “This bill will end the tyranny of big upfront planning, big upfront design, and litigation style change management.” The bill, which goes into effect immediately, will make it a criminal offense to use software development lifecycles that divide software projects into serially executed phases distinguished by a particular type of work activity. Violators will be stripped of their project management certifications and could face up to six weeks in jail for their first offense.