Why is the waterfall model valuable to the management of information technology projects?

The Nature of Information Technology Projects Oct 7, 2005 ...

Failure can be a valuable experience because one can learn ...... the area of information technology project management. (ITPM). ... (the Waterfall model) or by means of more iterative approaches. ...
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