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People should read Royce's paper that popularised Waterfall. It has iterations, sadly it appears most people stopped reading after Figure 2.

Thanks. 1970. It also talks about building a prototype, eg one to throw away.

Yup, 1970. The Mythical Man-Month was published in 1975.

Our industry is well on the path to ignore the obvious truths for 50 years...