W. W. Royce
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Winston W. Royce is a software engineering researcher who is often (erroneously) cited as the inventor of the Waterfall model. Winston Royce, in fact, in his original article[1] published in 1970 described a linear method, and even had a nice picture of it, and claimed it to be 'grandiose'. In the latter half of his article he described an iterative method, which he actually did propose. However, even science is made by people - others looked at the article quickly, saw the nice image of a 'waterfall' (Royce did not use that term) and decided to use it (NATO being the largest and most influential proponent of the waterfall).
- ^ Royce, Winston W. (1970): Managing the Development of Large Software Systems: Concepts and Techniques. In: Technical Papers of Western Electronic Show and Convention (WesCon). August 25-28, 1970, Los Angeles, USA.
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