Projects Characteristics Determining Suitability of Software Development Process

Michel S. Soares, Joseph Barjis

2013

Abstract

Software development is a complex engineering activity that faces many challenges. In the last three decades, software projects frequently ran over time, cost over budget, and delivered less functionalities than promised. These challenges are dominantly caused by technical and management failures. One critical challenge is that project characteristics, such as the technical and management environment, are not well-known in advance. The preposition of this paper is that knowing the characteristics of a software project will have a positive effect on three indicators that are most important for stakeholders: costs, duration, and functionalities. This preposition is discussed and validated in relation to three sources: review of the literature, analysis of lessons-learned documents of completed software projects in industry, and interviews with practitioners. This research resulted in a list of characteristics (non-exhaustive) that should be taken into account during the initial phases of a software project development, which should increase likelihood of success.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

S. Soares M. and Barjis J. (2013). Projects Characteristics Determining Suitability of Software Development Process . In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-60-0, pages 118-125. DOI: 10.5220/0004419501180125

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis13,
author={Michel S. Soares and Joseph Barjis},
title={Projects Characteristics Determining Suitability of Software Development Process},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2013},
pages={118-125},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004419501180125},
isbn={978-989-8565-60-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Projects Characteristics Determining Suitability of Software Development Process
SN - 978-989-8565-60-0
AU - S. Soares M.
AU - Barjis J.
PY - 2013
SP - 118
EP - 125
DO - 10.5220/0004419501180125