Barry Boehm

"Agile development methodologies promise higher customer satisfaction, lower defect rates, faster development times and a solution to rapidly changing requirements. Plan-driven approaches promise predi…"

"Economic principles underlie the overall structure of the software lifecycle, and its primary refinements of prototyping, incremental development, and advancemanship. The primary economic driver of th…"

"“Stop the life cycle-I want to get off!"

"Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling soft…"

"The Code-and-Fix Model. The basic model used in the earliest days of software development contained two steps:"

"The stagewise and waterfall models. As early as 1956, experience on large software systems such as the Semi-Automated Ground Environment had led to the recognition of these problems and to the develop…"

"The dictionary defines "economics" as "a social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services." Here is another definit…"

"Throughout the software life cycle, there are many decision situations involving limited resources in which software engineering economics techniques provide useful assistance."