Reading: Gladden, "Stop the life-cycle, I want to get off"

This reading was assigned for week 4 and personally it wasn't one that I enjoyed reading. I felt that the article did not do a good job of explaining technical terms or properly describe the waterfall process and the non-cyclical Hollywood model. This made the article harder for me to read.

However I did like the concept of the article which discussed how the typical software life-cycle is no longer helpful as it encourages late alterations which would inevitably impact each subsequent task. I also felt like the authors proposed reasonable solutions to this problem such as introducing mock-ups of the physical hardware earlier on in the project to avoid changes in later stages.