# Warning: Waterfall Model
Mark Oxenham just pointed out something to me on wikipedia.
The Waterfall Model was actually an example of a risky software development model in an article in 1970 by W.W. Royce. Royce apparently used an Iterative development model.
I just think its so funny, that all these universities and colleges teach the waterfall software development technique when it was actually created as an example of a “grandiose” methodology that “invites failure”. Plus it also seems like agile/extreme-programming or spiral techniques are actually being employed within software development companies nowadays anyway, meaning that the waterfall model is even more useless…. well… I suppose it give first year students the very basics of software development methodology.
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model (accessed 15th March 2007)
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.: https://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=41801
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