Barry Boehm Quotes

• 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.

  Barry Boehm

  Team, Writing, Agility

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

  Barry Boehm

  Teamwork, Poor Management, Cost

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

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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.

  Barry Boehm

  Cost, Development, Poor Management

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

  Barry Boehm

  Downtime, Bugs, Programming

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

  Barry Boehm

  Team, Requirements, Negotiation

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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.

  Barry Boehm

  Maintenance, Use, Development

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

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

  Barry Boehm

  Want, Cycles

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

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• Software engineering economics.

  Barry Boehm

  Engineering, Economics, Software

  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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