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