Barry Boehm Quotes

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

• Management
• Development
• Costs

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Reason
  • Shock
  • Electrical

• I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Writing
  • Tennis
  • Bread

• Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Control
  • Leadership

• Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • American
  • Look

• Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • God
  • Thinking

• I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Kid

• My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Always
  • Angry
  • Jump

• We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Women
  • Proud

• I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Up
  • Play
  • Training

• Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Values
  • Terrorism
  • Attack

• I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Try
  • Sunday

• Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they're incredible at partnering with each other.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Different
  • Today
  • Discipline

• One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Together
  • Society
  • Human

• I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Important
  • True

• The statement that I made and that I think I will continue to make is that racism and bigotry isn't just relegated to the Southern region; it permeates the history of our nation. It's not to say that we haven't made progress. Obviously we have with our first African American president, and I never thought that would happen in my lifetime.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • American
  • History
  • Progress

• Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Reality
  • Energy

• I believe in content, and I go accordingly.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Content

• I need to feel happy outside.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • Happy

• I've been playing and singing music since I was three or four years old. I was playing guitar, playing the piano.

  

  Joseph David-Jones
  • Singing
  • Playing

• I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.

  

  Monica Lewinsky
  • Powerful
  • Environment
  • Person

• I get typecast as doctors, principals, middle-management-type guys - which, when you look at me, you realize is completely against my physical characteristics. I should be an action hero. So I don't understand what's going on.

  

  Brian Huskey
  • Action
  • Hero
  • Management

• Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Believe
  • Leadership
  • Management

• 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
  • Management
  • Development
  • Costs