Which software development methodologies can be seen as foundations

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Published on 2011-02-28T08:18:51Z Indexed on 2011/02/28 15:32 UTC
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I'm writing a small research paper which involves software development methodologiess. I was looking into all the available methodology's and I was wondering, from all methodologies, are there any that have provided the foundations for the others?

For an example, looking at the following methodologies:
Agile, Prototyping, Cleanroom, Iterative, RAD, RUP, Spiral, Waterfall, XP, Lean, Scrum, V-Model, TDD.

Can we say that:
Prototyping, Iterative, Spiral and Waterfall are the "foundation" for the others?

Or is there no such thing as "foundations" and does each methodology has it's own unique history?

I would ofcourse like to describe all the methodology's in my research paper, but I simply don't have the time to do so and that is why I would like to know which methodologies can be seen as representatives.

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