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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.

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

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.

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

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

Barry Boehm
Downtime, Bugs, Programming

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

Barry Boehm
Team, Requirements, Negotiation

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.

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.

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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