I don't remember the original source of this image but it's a comical take on the SDLC, showing how different roles / teams understand what the customer wanted versus needed when building a tree swing:
Dunno how it is now though.
It created extremely perverse incentives where nobody wanted to help each other or would even go as far as to sabotage other people's work in order to make sure they're not on the bottom. Some managers would hire people with the intent to fire them later.
In the period where Steve Jobs was not CEO it was a lot more like Microsoft with the various geographical divisions e.g. EMEA, AMR in particular having their own fiefdoms and starting wars with each other. And then of course the ridiculous number of skunkworks projects that would compete with other teams.
Every edition features dinosaurs, which totally relate to the concepts of CPU scheduling, IPC, memory management, etc.
The seventh edition is the absolute pinnacle, as the sauropod family on the front cover enjoy a host of electronic devices from the 80's and 90's:
https://i.imgur.com/5U87Pgt.png
Most of the covers are great.
https://pbgalvin.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/scan0001.jpg
A nice touch that got dropped was that the minicomputer and microcomputer OSes were smaller, more evolved beasts.