Boehm, B.W and R. Ross (1988). "Theory-W Software Project Management: A Case Study," Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 88).  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....rely on feedback to varying degrees, and are described in the following sections. 2.3.1 The spiral model The spiral lifecycle model can be seen as many iterations of the traditional waterfall model. It is a risk driven, cyclic approach to develop increasingly elaborate implementations of a system (Boehm, 1988). This results in incremental releases of the system. Each cycle contains four activities: 1. Elaborate (sub)system objectives, constraints, and alternatives. 2. Evaluate alternatives with regard to objectives and constraints. Identify major sources of risk. 3. Elaborate product and process ....

....The main difficulty in the pure spiral model is determining where the elaborated objectives, constraints, and alternatives come from. The WinWin spiral model (Boehm et al., 1998) adds additional activities to the pure spiral model to address this shortcoming. These activities are based on Theory W (Boehm and Ross, 1988), a management theory and approach which says to make everyone a winner . The authors argue that for a project to be successful, it is necessary and sufficient to make all important stakeholders winners. The team should understand how people want to win, and match people s tasks to their win ....

Boehm, B.W and R. Ross (1988). "Theory-W Software Project Management: A Case Study," Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 88).

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