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(outsourcing) Software development is a piece of cake... or is it?
July 2, 2008 This excerpt came from a post on Gunnar Skogsholm's blog about software project failure... Software development hard. Right from the beginning there are a million things that could go wrong. This list on comes from
Software is risky business. Here's what can (and usually does) go wrong:
- team dysfunction
- failure to understand software (process, costs, etc)
- lack of leadership or vision
- failure to understand, communicate, document the problem domain description
- failure to architect a solution
- failure to design a software application
- failure of project management
- failure to select good tools
- failure to select reliable technologies
- failure to implement the software
- failure to test the software
- failure of quality assurance
Software development is...
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