Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Barry Boehm

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American engineer Barry Boehm.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Barry Boehm

Barry W. Boehm is an American software engineer, distinguished professor of computer science, industrial and systems engineering; the TRW Professor of Software Engineering; and founding director of the Center for Systems and Software Engineering at the University of Southern California. He is known for his many contributions to the area of software engineering.

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.
Negotiation builds a team as well as a set of requirements.
Software engineering economics. — © Barry Boehm
Software engineering economics.
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.
Stop the life cycle-I want to get off!
Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.
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.
About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.
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