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Software development failures [electronic resource] : anatomy of abandoned projects / Kweku Ewusi-Mensah.

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Failed or abandoned software development projects cost the U.S. economy alone billions of dollars a year. In Software Development Failures, Kweku Ewusi-Mensah offers an empirically grounded study that suggests why these failures happen and how they can be avoided. Case studies analyzed include the w...

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Online Access: Full Text (via MIT Press)
Main Author: Ewusi-Mensah, Kweku
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Computer software > Development.
Software failures.
Risk management.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Conceptual issues. Software development project failures
  • Software project characteristics
  • Factors critical to abandoned software projects
  • II. Empirical factors. Socioorganizational factors and abandoned projects
  • Technical factors and abandoned projects
  • Economic factors and abandoned projects
  • User perspectives on software development failures
  • III. Learning from failures. Postabandonmnet review: learning from abandoned projects
  • Software development: a strategic paradigm
  • Project failures and aftermath.

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