Tom DeMarco, Principal, The Atlantic Systems Guild, author of Peopleware, Deadline, and Slack
I am seriously impressed with this ICSM book. Besides being conceptually sound, I was amazed by the sheer number of clear and concise characterizations of issues, relationships, and solutions. I wanted to take a yellow highlighter to it until I realized I d be highlighting most of the book.
Curt Hibbs, Chief Agile Evangelist, Boeing
Use the ICSM to Generate and Evolve Your Life-Cycle Process Assets to Best Fit Your Organization s Diverse and Changing Needs
Many systems development practitioners find traditional one-size-fits-all processes inadequate for the growing complexity, diversity, dynamism, and assurance needs of their products and services. The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model (ICSM) responds with a principle- and risk-based framework for defining and evolving your project and corporate process assets, avoiding pitfalls and disruption, and leveraging opportunities to increase value.
This book explains ICSM s framework of decision criteria and principles, and shows how to apply them through relevant examples. It demonstrates ICSM s potential for reducing rework and technical debt, improving maintainability, handling emergent requirements, and raising assurance levels.
Its coverage includes
- What makes a system development successful
- ICSM s goals, principles, and usage as a process-generation framework
- Creating and evolving processes to match your risks and opportunities
- Integrating your current practices and adopting ICSM concepts incrementally, focusing on your greatest needs and opportunities
About the Website: Download the evolving ICSM guidelines, subprocesses, templates, tools, white papers, and academic support resources at csse.usc.edu/ICSM.