What is the history of the Waterfall Process?

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Romano Roth

I believe the next competitive edge isn’t AI itself, it’s the organisation around it. As Group Chief AI Officer at Zühlke, I work with C-level leaders to build enterprises that sense, decide, and adapt continuously. 20+ years turning this conviction into practice.

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The “inventor” of the waterfall process 💧 said in 1970: “I believe in this concept, but the implementation described above is risky and invites failure.” 😱

Watch my video to see what a mind blowing 🤯 approach he recommended in 1970:

The waterfall process 💧 is a software development process first introduced by Dr. Winston W. Royce in a 📝 paper published in 1970 (although Royce did not use the term waterfall in that article).

📑 On page 329 Royce introduces the waterfall process and says: “I believe in this concept, but the implementation described above is risky and invites failure.”

📑 On page 330 Royce shows how the waterfall process can be fixed by introducing an ♻ iterative approach.

👉 Use an iterative approach for complex and complicated software development. 👍

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