Barry Boehm famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Downtime #Bugs #Testing
Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.
-- Barry Boehm

#Teamwork #Cost #Management
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
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
Management Challenges to Implementing Agile Processes in Traditional Development Organizations,
-- Barry Boehm

#Organization #Challenges #Development
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 #Action
Negotiation builds a team as well as a set of requirements.
-- Barry Boehm

#Team #Requirements #Negotiation
Stop the life cycle-I want to get off!
-- Barry Boehm

#Want #Cycles
Software engineering economics.
-- Barry Boehm

#Engineering #Economics #Software

I love having candles, especially when you get downtime. I could just pass out seeing the flame flicker with the lights off.
Because I'm around comedians all the time, in my downtime I tend not to watch comedy. Something the whole family enjoys is 'You've Been Framed!' It satisfies all of us. It's universal, and we all laugh a lot.
Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
Australia's massive. I don't have a lot of downtime.
Let's just say I am happy that she [Hillary Clinton] is getting some much needed downtime now. But she's looking forward to getting back out on the trail very soon.
I get enough fashion news in my professional life. I like interiors during my downtime.
I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.
Testing a product is a learning process
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.
Testing oneself is best when done alone.

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