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Software Development Failures »
Authors: Kweku Ewusi-Mensah
ISBN-13: 9780262050722, ISBN-10: 0262050722
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: September 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Kweku Ewusi-Mensah
Kweku Ewusi-Mensah is Professor of Computer Information Systems at Loyola Marymount University.
Book Synopsis
An empirically based study of why software development failures happen, and the lessons we can learn.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| I | Conceptual Issues | 1 |
| 1 | Software Development Project Failures | 3 |
| 2 | Software Project Characteristics | 29 |
| 3 | Factors Critical to Abandoned Software Projects | 47 |
| II | Empirical Factors | 71 |
| 4 | Socioorganizational Factors and Abandoned Projects | 73 |
| 5 | Technical Factors and Abandoned Projects | 107 |
| 6 | Economic Factors and Abandoned Projects | 137 |
| 7 | User Perspectives on Software Development Failures | 153 |
| III | Learning from Failures | 187 |
| 8 | Postabandonment Review: Learning from Abandoned Projects | 189 |
| 9 | Software Development: A Strategic Paradigm | 221 |
| 10 | Project Failures and Aftermath | 239 |
| References | 255 | |
| Index | 265 |
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