Barry Boehm Quotes

• Stop the life cycle-I want to get off!

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  "A spiral model of software development and enhancement". "Computer" 21.5: 61-72, 1988.

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• Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans.

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  Team   Writing   Agility  

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• Software engineering economics.

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  Mingshu Li, Barry Boehm, Leon J. Osterweil (2005). “Unifying the Software Process Spectrum: International Software Process Workshop, SPW 2005, Beijing, China, May 25-27, 2005 Revised Selected Papers”, p.66, Springer Science & Business Media

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• About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.

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• Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.

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  "Planning Smarter: Creating Blueprint-Quality Software Specifications". Book by Tyson Gill (p. 14), 2002.

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• If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as a deliverable enables its use throughout the development and maintenance process.

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  "Software Architecture in Practice". Book by Len Bass, Paul Clements, and Rick Kazman, 1997.

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• 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 software development costs.

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• Negotiation builds a team as well as a set of requirements.

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  Team  

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