33 Managing the Development of Large Software Systems (1970)

Winston Royce (1929-1995) was an aeronautical engineer by training and a software engineer in practice. From 1961 until 1994 he led software development projects in the aerospace industry, first at TRW and then at Lockheed. Like Fred Brooks (chapter 40), he drew on his experience developing large systems to develop practical guidance on how the process can be improved. This paper summarizes key ideas which he elaborated in later works.