August 2019
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When people talk about the origins of the waterfall model, it is often said that W. W. Royce introduced it in 1970 in the paper, Managing the Development of Large Software Systems (http://www-scf.usc.edu/~csci201/lectures/Lecture11/royce1970.pdf). Royce himself actually believed in the iterative approach to software development and did not even use the term waterfall. Royce described the waterfall model as a method he thought was too extreme – and even an proposition doomed to fail: "I believe in this concept, but the implementation described above is risky and invites failure", Royce wrote.
In 1970, Royce thought that the waterfall method had to be seen as an initial concept, as he felt there were errors in ...
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