Barry W. Boehm is a mathematician and TRW Professor of Software Engineering, Computer Science Department Director, USC Center for Software Engineering. He started working as a Programmer-Analyst at General Dynamics in 1955 and switched to the Rand Corporation four years later where he was Head of the Information Sciences Department until 1973. From 1973 to […]
The Father of Waterfall Isn’t
The Waterfall model for system development has been a de facto standard since the 1970s. But did you know that Dr. Winston Royce, the man who is attributed with being the first computer scientist to formally describe the model, said in his famous 1970 paper that it doesn’t work? If you’re an advocate of the […]
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