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From: ianr@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Ian Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Spiral Model of Soft. Developm.
Keywords: Spiral model
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Date: 19 Nov 90 17:24:46 GMT
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syg@ecmwf.co.uk (Gilberto Camara) writes:
>
> It appears that the "spiral" model is better suited to such environments
> than the "waterfall". Has anyone has experince on it ?
>
> BTW, the basic reference we're using is:
>
> "A Spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement",
> Barry Boehm, IEEE Computer, May 1988.

I didn't know that this method had been formally proposed (but I
guess someone had to), the AI community has been (implicitly) doing
things this way for decades.

Just my L.02

Ian Rogers
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