What Are the Benefits of Waterfall?

We can mention a few advantages (or benefits) of using the Waterfall methodology:

• Straightforward planning and designing
• Better design with a whole-system approach
• Defined scope of work
• Easier costing
• Clear measurements of progress
• Defined team roles
• Dedicated resources can work in parallel for their specific tasks

What Are the Disadvantages of Waterfall?

Newer development methodologies were created because of known disadvantages of Waterfall, including:

• Rigid structure to allow necessary changes
• No allowance for uncertainty
• Limited customer engagement, resulting in poor satisfaction
• Sequential approach is not ideal for a large-sized project where the end result is too far in the future
• Testing is done only at the later phases of the project.