* Tags:: #🗞️Articles * Author:: [[robert-c.-martin|Robert C]] * Link:: [What Killed Waterfall could Kill Agile.textile](https://gist.github.com/azder/6447425) * Source date:: [[2010-11-20]] * Finished date:: [[2021-08-20]] Related to what I talked about in [[Ask HN. How bad should the code be in a startup.|Ask Hn. How Bad Should The Code Be In A Startup]]: a story about people only superficially understanding stuff: >There was just one problem. The process that DOD2167 adopted was Royce’s straw man! Apparently the authors of DOD2167 did not actually read Royce’s paper; because they adopted the “grandiose”, naïve process that Royce’s paper had derided. To his great chagrin, Dr. Winston W. Royce became known as the father of the waterfall.