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:"

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

"The spiral model presented in this article is one candidate for improving the software process model situation. The major distinguishing feature of the spiral model is that it creates a risk-driven ap…"

"Like many fields in their early stages, the software field has had its share of project disasters: the software equivalents of Beauvais Cathedral, the S.S. Titanic, and the "Galloping Gertie" Tacoma N…"