The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model: Principles and Practices for Successful Systems and Software

Foreword

Developers, thinkers, and writers have wrestled since the 1960s with process models for building software, including my own 1975 simple-minded “Plan to throw one away; you will anyhow.” Practitioners in the software development discipline early learned that a patterned development is more likely to succeed than a chaotic one, at any size. Hence, the emergence of process models.

I am firmly convinced that the model set forth in this book is by far the best anyone has developed. First proposed by Boehm in 1988, it was even then the fruit of much thought and a rich trove of practical experience. In the almost 30 years since its introduction, the Incremental Commitment Spiral Model has grown and evolved through actual use in many projects, ...