The CTO’s Methodological Pivot

How AI is forcing CTOs to rethink everything they believed about Agile and Waterfall

In August 1970, Winston Royce stood before an audience at IEEE WESCON and presented a paper that would be misquoted for the next fifty years. His eleven-page document, “Managing the Development of Large Software Systems,” contained a diagram showing a sequential flow from requirements to operations. That diagram, later dubbed “waterfall,” became the pos…