Three Paradigms
Three paradigms.
Three cost-equation shifts.
Each paradigm is a deliberate response to what the previous one made expensive. DoCoDeGo is the third in that lineage.
Waterfall
- Solved
- Formalised investigation. Sequential phases produced predictability where there was chaos.
- Cost it created
- Investigation cost. Every change became expensive to absorb once a phase had closed.
Agile
- Solved
- Iterated. Distributed investigation across short cycles, brought the customer into the loop.
- Cost it created
- Coordination cost. Standups, ceremonies, the certification industries that fed on them.
DoCoDeGo
- Solved
- AI made investigation cheap. Intent became the highest-leverage human work.
- Cost it created
- We do not yet know. Honesty about that is part of the framework.