Further Reading

Gilb, Tom. Principles of Software Engineering Management. Wokingham, England: Addison-Wesley, 1988. Chapters Chapter 7 and Chapter 15 contain thorough discussions of staged delivery and evolutionary delivery.

McConnell, Steve. Code Complete. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, 1993. Chapter 27 describes the evolutionary-delivery practice.

Cusumano, Michael, and Richard Selby. Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People. New York: Free Press, 1995. Chapter 4 describes Microsoft's milestone process, which could be considered to be a cousin to evolutionary delivery. Cusumano and Selby are professors at MIT and UC Irvine, respectively, and they present the outsider's ...

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