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Brian Marick

New podcast episode: "Oops! The Winston W. Royce Story"

In 1970, Royce's described the waterfall process for software development as “simplistic." It “invites failure." His paper was about fixing its inadequacies.

What people took away from it was "Hey, we should do waterfall!"

What's up with *that*? I blame our brains and how they use metaphor and interpret node-and-arrow diagrams.

I end with practical suggestions for avoiding Royce's fate.

podcast.oddly-influenced.dev/e (Transcript available)

Oddly InfluencedOddly Influenced | E47: Oops! The Winston W. Royce StoryIn 1970, Winston W. Royce published a paper “Managing the Development of Large Software Systems.” Later authors cited it as the justification for what had come to be called the
Mar 14, 2025, 01:46 PM·Public·Mona for Mac
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Marc Kalmes (he/him)

@marick Uuuuh, I missed a new episode! It's now queued in the podcast player. Looking forward to the story.
(and I still haven't read Royce's paper 🙈)

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