We have explained in the preceding pages what factors in software development projects compose the economic category of projectabandonment decisions. We have analyzed cost overruns and schedule delays, project goals and objectives, and the influence of changing requirements on software project development. We have examined, in particular, how cost overruns and schedule delays may be symptomatic of systemic problems in the development process. We have used the five project cases to illustrate and confirm the analyses by demonstrating in each how cost and schedule-delay concerns influenced the abandonment decision. Finally, we have analyzed the collective impact the three constituent economic factors have on the requirements, design, and implementation stages of the systems development process. We have asserted that the collective influence of the economic factors has a mild critical impact on the three software development stages because socioorganizational and technical factors have more to do with project outcome. We have explained that typically when difficulties associated with software development projects manifest themselves in cost overruns and schedule delays, the problems have ceased to be mainly technical or technological issues and instead have become those of organizational resource usage, and of what may be in the best strategic and economic interest of the organization. It is precisely at such a juncture in the life of the software development project that senior executives may act to cancel the project, if appropriate, to safeguard further consumption of organizational resources.
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