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Waterfall

An annotated collection of 1 papers on waterfall, spanning 1970. Featuring works by Winston W. Royce — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.

Managing the Development of Large Software Systems

Winston W. Royce, 1970 · Proceedings of IEEE WESCON

The paper usually cited as the birth of waterfall, and almost always misread. Royce diagrams the linear sequence — requirements, design, code, test, deploy — and immediately writes that this approach is "risky and invite…