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Software Development Failures: Anatomy of Abandoned Projects

byKweku Ewusi-Mensah

ISBN:0262050722

The MIT Press
2003
(276 pages)

This text offers an empirically grounded study that suggests why failed or abandoned software development projects happen and how they can be avoided.

Table of Contents

Software Development Failures—Anatomy of Abandoned Projects

Preface

Part I -
Conceptual Issues

Chapter 1
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Software Development Project Failures

Chapter 2
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Software Project Characteristics

Chapter 3
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Factors Critical to Abandoned Software Projects

Part II -
Empirical Factors

Chapter 4
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Socioorganizational Factors and Abandoned Projects

Chapter 5
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Technical Factors and Abandoned Projects

Chapter 6
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Economic Factors and Abandoned Projects

Chapter 7
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User Perspectives on Software Development Failures

Part III -
Learning from Failures

Chapter 8
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Postabandonment Review—Learning from Abandoned Projects

Chapter 9
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Software Development—A Strategic Paradigm

Chapter 10
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Project Failures and Aftermath

References

Index

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Sidebars