Barry Boehm: 1935–2022

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

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...

A Process Programmer Looks at the Spiral Model: A Tribute to the Deep Insights of Barry W. Boehm

This paper elaborates on implications of Barry W. Boehm’s Spiral Model of software development. The paper notes that the Spiral Model presents a compelling view of software development, evocatively represented by a visual image that appeals strongly to intuition, and notes that the view and image have motivated and justified a range of important views of how software development should be done....

Focused Workshop # 7 System Integration with Commercial Off the Shelf ( COTS ) Software November 6 - 8 , 1996 & HQWHU IRU 6 RIWZDUH ( QJLQHHULQJ Editors : Christopher Abts Barry Boehm

Barry Duncan

1. What exactly is an evidenced-based practice? It usually means an approach that has established itself better than placebo or treatment as usual in two clinical trials. Such demonstrations are nothing to write home about; intervention of nearly any kind has demonstrated its superiority over placebo for 50 years! This research tells us nothing that we already do not know: Treatment works. So, ...