Non-Technical Components of Software Development and their Influence on Success and Failure of Software Development
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Knowledge and understanding of success and failure factors, as well as how to measure them and the interactions between these factors have great importance for project management effectiveness. Project success and failure is a question of perception and the criteria could vary from project to project A project that has been perceived to be a failure by one stakeholder may be perceived as a success by another. Therefore a study was conducted in India among the industries that are into inhouse software development, to investigate the influence of the non-technical components of the software development process, on success and failure of software development. This study reveals that practitioners consider the level of customer/user involvement, software process management, and estimation & schedule to contribute most to project success and failure and from the organizational perspective the level of customer/user involvement, project manager/staff and software process management contribute most to project success and failure. KeywordsSuccess, Failure, Non-technical components, inhouse, Software development.
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