TO CONTAIN COST, LETS NOT OVER BUILD OUR SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
In the software industry, many deployed projects suffered one or more of the following: they had fewer features than planned, they were late on their deployment, or they were over budget. We participated in a project that suffered all of these. More significantly, it overran the budget by at least 400％. Looking back, many wrong decisions were made, such as misjudged users expectations and their environments, subscribed over complicated backend architecture, and selected a different programming language that was unable to reuse existing code, etc. In this paper, serving as a case study, we argue that an effective approach to contain the cost of a software project, especially internal software, is to build a system that answer the core requirements with room for improvement, not to build the best system in the market.
Project management Software engineering Cost estimations System requirements Quality control
Jie Liu
Department of Computer Science, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.
国际会议
13th International Conference on Enterprise Information System(第13届企业信息系统国际会议 ICEIS 2011)
北京
英文
1903-1906
2011-06-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）