Theory-W software project management principles and examples
BARRY W. BOEHM, R.W. Ross · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1989
Abstract-A good software project management theory should he simultaneously simple, general, and specific. To date, those objectives have been difficult to satisfy. This paper presents a candidate software management theory and shows that it satisfies those objectives reason-ably well. Reflecting various alphabetical management theories (X, Y, Z), it is called the Theory W approach to software project manage-ment.