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Spiral Development: Experience, Principles, and Refinements
Barry Boehm,Wilfred J. Hansen +1 more
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In this paper, a family of software development processes characterized by repeatedly iterating a set of elemental development processes and managing risk so it is actively being reduced is defined, and a few invariants that any such process must exhibit.Abstract:
: Spiral development is a family of software development processes characterized by repeatedly iterating a set of elemental development processes and managing risk so it is actively being reduced. This paper characterizes spiral development by enumerating a few "invariant" properties that any such process must exhibit. For each, a set of "variants" is also presented, demonstrating a range of process definitions in the spiral development family. Each invariant excludes one or more "hazardous spiral look-alike" models, which are also outlined. This report also shows how the spiral model can be used for a more cost-effective incremental commitment of funds, via an analogy of the spiral model to stud poker. An important and relatively recent innovation to the spiral model has been the introduction of anchor point milestones. The latter part of the paper describes and discusses these.read more
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of economic analysis techniques and their applicability to software engineering and management, including the major estimation techniques available, the state of the art in algorithmic cost models, and the outstanding research issues in software cost estimation.
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A spiral model of software development and enhancement
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The unified software development process
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Software Risk Management
Barry Boehm,T. DeMarco +1 more
TL;DR: In mature engineering disciplines, risk management has been de rigeur for centuries as discussed by the authors, and we routinely practice risk management in our stewardship of the environment, in planning financial strategy, in construction engineering, and in medicine.