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Winston W. Royce Dead

Winston W. Royce
KindPerson
Born1929
Died1995
StatusDead
Fieldtheory
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Wrote the 1970 paper that drew the waterfall diagram — while recommending against using it exactly that way.

Wrote the 1970 paper that described what got called 'waterfall' — while actually arguing for iteration — the most misread document in software history.\n\nTRW's software-engineering director; his paper described what it didn't advocate.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_W._Royce
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model