A Conversation with Barry Boehm: Recollections from 50 Years of Software Engineering

Software Engineering and the Systems Approach: A Conversation with Barry Boehm

Barry Cooper, MD: a conversation with the editor.

Volume 19, Number 3256 257 Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2006;19:257–268 B arry Cooper (Figure 1) was born on January 22, 1945, in Louisville, Kentucky, and that is where he grew up. His parents had 4 sons, and Barry was the second. One of Barry’s brothers also became a physician, and the other two brothers became lawyers. After graduating first in his high school class, Barry Cooper went to Frankl...

Environment Support for Improving Software Development Processes: A Vision Influenced by the Work of Barry W. Boehm

Throughout his career, Barry Boehm has advocated the importance of understanding software development processes, measuring their performance, and using those measurements to guide the development of improved process models. In this paper, we describe PIE, a Process Improvement Environment, which supports that vision. PIE supports the definition of process models that can be analyzed and execute...

The Vipeholm Dental Caries Study: recollections and reflections 50 years later.

MICHAEL JOHN BARRY, MD: a conversation with the editor on shared decision making.

M ichael Barry (Figure) was born on July 23, 1953, in Hartford, Connecticut, and grew up there. He graduated from Trinity College in 1975 and from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in 1979. From there, he went to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York, where he did his residency training in internal medicine. From 1983 through 1985 he was a research fellow in general int...