Boehm's career stretches from a brilliant practice in private industry to high-end government work and finally academia (software engineering, U. of Southern California). His projects now include studies of value-based software engineering, product models, property models and success models called "model-based system engineering and software engineering" (MBASE), and his publications, dozens of which appear here, date from the early 1970s onward. Sorted into chronological order by topic, Boehm's articles reflect the wide range of his research across his diverse career and include software architecture and quality, software economics, software tools, the early spiral model of software process, software risk management, emerging extensions in software process, software and systems management, the state of the art and practice of software engineering. He closes with comments on being a software engineer in the software century. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less