DeGrace, Peter, and Leslie Hulet Stahl. Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Yourdon Press, 1990. The subtitle of this book is "A Catalog of Modern Software Engineering Paradigms," and it is by far the most complete description of software lifecycle models available. The book was produced through an unusual collaboration in which Peter DeGrace provided the useful technical content and Leslie Hulet Stahl provided the exceptionally readable and entertaining writing style.

Boehm, Barry W., ed. Software Risk Management. Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1989. This tutorial is interesting for the introduction to Section 4, "Implementing Risk Management." Boehm describes how to use the spiral model to decide which software lifecycle model to use. The volume also includes Boehm's papers, "A Spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement" and "Applying Process Programming to the Spiral Model," which introduce the spiral lifecycle model and describe an extension to it (Boehm 1988; Boehm and Belz 1988).

Jones, Capers. Assessment and Control of Software Risks. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Yourdon Press, 1994. Chapter 57, "Partial Life-Cycle Definitions" describes the hazards of not breaking down your lifecycle description into enough detail. It provides a summary of the 25 activities that Jones says make up most of the work on a successful software project.