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References
DION93: Raymond Dion, "Process Improvement
and the Corporate Balance Sheet",
IEEE Software, July 1993, Pages 28-35.
DION95: Raymond Dion, Tom Haley, Blake
Ireland and Ed Wojtaszek of Raytheon Electronic Systems, “The Raytheon
Report: Raytheon Electronic Systems Experience in Software Process
Improvement”, November 1995, SEI web-site,
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/products/publications/95.reports/95.tr.017.html/.
This is an important update of earlier
reports.
GILB88: Tom Gilb, “Principles of Software
Engineering Management”,
Addison-Wesley, 1988, 442 pages. ISBN
0-201-19246-2. See particularly Chapter 6, Estimating the Risk (reproduced
in Boehm, Software Risk Management, IEEE CS Press, 1989 page 53).
GILB93: Tom Gilb and Dorothy Graham, “Software
Inspection”, Addison-Wesley, 1993, ISBN 0-201-63181-4, 5TH printing 1998,
471 pages.
This book covers the Defect Detection
Process and the Defect Prevention Process, as well as giving sample Rules to
check by, defined processes and a well defined set of Glossary terms to aid
quantification and comparison. It is a next-generation Inspection, with
hundreds of larger and smaller improvements over initial Inspection
practices.
GILB98: Tom Gilb, Various papers and
manuscripts on www.gilb.com. The manuscripts include:
- ‘Requirements-Driven Management using
Planguage’ (1995-6)
- 'Evolutionary Project Management’ (1997)
- ‘Requirements Engineering Language’
(1998).
HALL98: Elaine M. Hall, “Managing Risk:
Methods for Software Systems Development. SEI Series in Software
Engineering”, Addison Wesley Longman, USA. (enq.orders@awl.co.uk) , £31.95,
1998, ISBN 0-201-25592-8, 374 pages.
This book is impressive and contains a lot
of useful detail and original thought. Anyone interested in risk will enjoy
and learn from the book as I did. It does not however deal with most of the
subjects in this paper {specification languages, impact estimation,
inspections, evolutionary delivery}. This in no way detracts from the book’s favorable recommendation. It does tackle ‘quantified objectives’ much better
than other texts.
MAY96: Elaine L. May and Barbara A. Zimmer,
“The Evolutionary Development Model for Software”, Hewlett-Packard Journal,
August 1996, Vol. 47, No. 4, pages 39-45.
The author was at HP in 1989 on a project
team who were taught early versions of the Planguage method. The article is
full of practical advice and case studies gleaned from ten major projects in
eight HP divisions. It must be strongly recommended to anyone interested in
the practical implementation of Evo in a project and especially in an
organization for many projects. See also article by Todd Cotton in same
issue on Evo.
HP Journal subscription free to qualified
individuals: Write Distribution Manager, HP Journal, M/S 20BH, 3000 Hanover
Street, Palo Alto, CA, USA-94304, or Email: hp_journal@hp_paloalto-gen13.om.hp.com.
HP Journal is available on World Wide Web at “http://www.hp.com/hpj/Journal.html”.
(Warning HP may have moved this site, but you can get to the new site from here)
©Tom Gilb
2005
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