Barry W. Boehm

Barry W. Boehm was a prominent American software engineer and author of the COCOMO costing model and the Spiral Model software process.

He commented on the approach embraced by SAFe: “Tailoring-down all-inclusive methods lead to unnecessary expenses in time and resources”, and he adds that it’s the opposite of the Agile approach.

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• The original article with the quotes couldn’t be found, the search done concludes that the most probable source of the quotes is the book “Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed”