- Tags:: 🗞️Articles
- Author:: Robert C
- Link:: What Killed Waterfall could Kill Agile.textile
- 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: 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.