Waterfall Model, The

But just as being “fast” is more important than being completely “right” in maneuver war, being secret is more important than being completely “right” in 5GW.

5th Generation Wars will be created with Waterfall Development. We can see what 5GWs will be like by looking at what Waterfall Development is like:

• Requirements must be known a long time before fighting begins
• Requirements will be rigid and non-adaptable
• Long Time between proposal and victory

(Dr. Dan Abbott @  tdaxp.com¹)

Dr. Abbott first proposed the Waterfall Model as a useful tool for visualizing a 5GW operation's approach toward the creation of new systems or alterations of systems:  The 5GW goals will be planned, the plan will be analyzed against the prevailing conditions, an operational design will be developed from that analysis, and the operations will be implemented.  Unlike other forms of systems planning (e.g., prototyping), a Waterfall approach would not require all participants in the implementation to know of the original plans and goals of the 5GW effort, thus enabling secrecy to be maintained.

Blogger and Dreaming 5GW contributor Arherring eventually expanded the Waterfall Model while also suggesting that the Model would be useful only for 5GW efforts in which "your goal is able to be set in stone and is of a scope or timeframe that it can and should be attacked all at once (such as the outcome of an election)"; for other efforts, an iterative design model would be more useful.²   The steps in the sequential Waterfall Model proposed by Arherring:

1. Requirements Specification
2. Design
3. Construction
4. Integration
5. Testing and Debugging (Verification)
6. Installation
7. Maintenance

See: The Iterative Model

¹ "Dreaming 5th Generation War" @ tdaxp.com.

² "Laying the Foundations: Part 1 Sequential Design" @ Red Herrings.