Reflections on the influences of the COCOMO, spiral and the Win-Win models on software project and risk management

The Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T) is the premier forum where researchers and practitioners interested in software engineering education (SEE) and training come together to assess the existing state of the art and practice in SEE, to exchange ideas, and to define and identify new directions in the field. The 19th CSEE&T was held in Turtle Bay, Hawaii in April 2006. A new track in the CSEE&T 2006 program was devoted to Barry Boehm and his contributions and how his contributions have influenced and shaped the software engineering education and training programs. A number of submissions to the Boehm track were considered for the current issue of the Journal of Systems and Software. The authors of the selected papers were asked to revise and extend their articles for the JSS publication. Their contributions highlight the impact of Barry Boehm’s work, and in particular the uses of the COCOMO, Spiral, and the Win-Win models in classroom instructions. The following is a summary of each of the articles. The impact of MBASE on software engineering graduate courses. Riardo Valerdi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) discusses significant contributions by Barry Boehm including the COCOMO, the Spiral model, the Win-Win theory, and risk management principles. Valerdi highlights the impact of these contributions in industry, government, and the educational institutions, especially those at Boehm’s home institution, the University of Southern California. Valerdi devotes the majority of his article to the MBASE framework. The MBASE (ModelBased System Architecting and Software Engineering) is an approach to the development of software systems that integrate the system’s process, product, and success models to enable successful development of software-intensive systems. Making every student a winner. Paul Grunbacher (Christian Doppler Laboratory for Automated Software Engineering in Austria) and his co-authors from the United States, Austria, and S. Korea report on the use of Barry W. Boehm’s Theory-W and Win-Win requirements negoti-