The high cost of software: causes and corrections. - Richard H. Thayer; John B. Slaughter; Barry W. Boehm; Judith A. Clapp; John H. Manley; James H. Burrows (AFIPS National Computer Conference, 1974)

The Air Force software manager. - Richard H. Thayer (ACM Annual Conference, 1975)

Special Feature The Challenge of Software Engineering Project Management. - Richard H. Thayer; Arthur B. Pyster; Roger C. Wood (Computer, 1980)

Organizational structures used in software development by the U.S. aerospace industry. - Richard H. Thayer (J. Syst. Softw., 1980)

Major Issues in Software Engineering Project Management. - Richard H. Thayer; Arthur B. Pyster; Roger C. Wood (IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 1981)

Validating Solutions to Major Problems in Software Engineering Project Management. - Richard H. Thayer; Arthur B. Pyster; Roger C. Wood (Computer, 1982)

Guest Editorial: Software Engineering Project Management. - Richard H. Thayer; Arthur B. Pyster (IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 1984)

The concept of operations: the bridge from operational requirements to technical specifications. - Richard E. Fairley; Richard H. Thayer; Per Bjorke (ICRE, 1994)

Software engineering. - Merlin Dorfman; Richard H. Thayer (IEEE, 1996)

The Concept of Operations: The Bridge from Operational Requirements to Technical Specifications. - Richard E. Fairley; Richard H. Thayer (Ann. Softw. Eng., 1997)

Software System Engineering: A Tutorial. - Richard H. Thayer (Computer, 2002)

Software Engineering Glossary. - Richard H. Thayer (IEEE Softw., 2003)

Guest Editors' Introduction: Software Engineering Project Management 20 Years Later. - Arthur B. Pyster; Richard H. Thayer (IEEE Softw., 2005)

IEEE Software Engineering Standards: A Student's Version. - Richard H. Thayer; Andrew D. McGettrick (CSEE&T, 2007)