Person

Winston W Royce

Software engineer who articulated phased waterfall development—and later cautioned against rigid sequential process.

Why this matters

Royce is sediment for how organizations imagine control—and why linear plans misread coupled work.

Works

article

Managing the Development of Large Software Systems.

Royce, Winston W. "Managing the Development of Large Software Systems." Proceedings, IEEE WESCON, August 1970, 1-9.

Related books

Book

Coupling

Cohesion, Consequence, and the Architecture of Responsibility

A practical framework for seeing where systems are tightly joined, where they drift apart, and how those coupling choices shape accountability over time.