Article Analysis : Software Failure

An IT implementation process can be long and tedious, or short and simple, depending on the size and needs of an organization. While implementing this process it is important to understand the roles and responsibilities of each step. Sometimes when the process is not thought out correctly, IT failures happen. IT failures are common reasons that systems do not work, or have many flaws.

Communication is an important part of our everyday lives. Without communications skills, it is extremely difficult to preform many simple tasks. With one person describing to another the function to perform, there needs to be clear description of the task at hand. When dealing with software projects, it is imperative that the end user convey their requirements of the software to the developer. Effective communication skills need to be used in order for a software project to be successful. A lack of communication to define a software project will not only doom the project but quickly increase the project budget due to misunderstandings and rework.

In this week’s discussion board, we learned about several project management tools and how they are used to facilitate the successful implementation of IT related projects. Additionally, we learned what happens when IT projects fall behind schedule, the reasons for the delays and if these reasons will hinder complex software implementations in the future.

More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined (Brooks, 1995). Why is this cause of disaster so common? Statistics show that schedule delays occur in about 70% of software projects, cost overruns are above 90%, and the time scheduled for large-scale development projects is exceeded by an average of between 20% and 50%. Lastly, the larger the project, the more likely it is that its budget will exceed what was originally planned (Junguang, Ruixia, & Estrella, 2015). On completion of any project, a risk section should be provided for the Project Lessons Learned Report, detailing risks that might affect other similar projects, together with responses that have been found

Base on the analysis the reference, the general consensus in the research is that this enterprise project fell into the most basic traps of software development, from poor planning to bad communications throughout the lifecycle of the project. Our team will focus on the following aspects including scope, human resource, procurement, unrealistic scheduling, contracting and contract management, program management and enterprise architecture, the report will analyze each topic and make corresponding recommendation to improve the practice.

Abstract— Reliable software is defined as the probability of failure-fee operation of a software system for a specified time in a specified environment. Unreliable software is defined as the when a software system has failures and faults within its operation. Software is unreliable when a computer program cannot perform their assigned functions in the system’s environment and ends up crashing. Many computer software specialists have been used to thinking that if a program has one or more errors in it, it is 0% reliable; if no errors 100% reliable [3].

Dealing with an increasingly volatile organizational environment is a serious challenge for managers of any software development project [11]. Traditional formal software development methodologies can be characterized as reflecting linear, sequential processes, and the related management approaches can be effective in developing software with stable, known, consistent requirements. Yet most real-world

In Recent times, there is an increase in interest in project management because most of the complex projects are often late, over budgeted and fail over and over again. Standish report says, there is 24% of projects that are failed or cancelled prior to completion or may be never used. 32% of them are successful which are delivered on time, on budget with required features and functions. And remaining 44% of the projects are challenged projects which are late, over budget or less than the required features and functions. The surveys says the IT project cost overrun on 2015 was 59%. Every organization wanted to be successful in delivering the projects. So it is important to implement models or methodologies to follow, check and verify the

All project managers (PM) want their projects to meet all requirements in a timely and cost-effective manner. However, project failure is common in project management because of undefined uncertainties throughout the project. There are many reasons why projects fail and each project can have its own set of complications. Sometimes it is a single incident, but more often than not, several issues that develop over time during the project combined cause a failure. A good project manager must be able to recognize indicators of failure and take action quickly. This paper will discuss six common reasons for project failure and insight into how to avoid them by addressing them immediately and efficiently.

According to the Standish Group, successful IT projects range from 16-35% over the past 20 years (Dominguez, 2009). This is a clear indication that something is inadequate with IT project management. This shows than in any given year more than two thirds of all projects will fail. This is a very dismal statistic that must be corrected in order to ensure long term success for any organization. In order to begin this correction, it is imperative to understand the final results of projects which deem them failures, reasons why the project ended with these results, and recommendations to prevent future failures.

Staff: One of the most critical resources used in the development process of an information system are the project members. A project can have several individuals whose jobs may vary throughout the build lifecycle. No one project will be the same and depending upon the size of the job may require the use of different member roles. Each staff member should be assigned a job, with a description of pre-defined tasks and responsibilities. The author Booch et al., (2007), provides a substantial list of development roles, which may include: “Project manager, Integration manager, Project architect, Component lead, Application engineer, System administrator, Reuse engineer, Tool-smith, Documenter, Quality assurance, Analysts, Release manager, Configuration manager, Version manager, Software programmers, and legal consultants”, (p. 311, para. 2). The author Booch et al., (2007), also suggests that, “Staff members can be further divided into smaller more organized groups such as: “management team, development team, architect team and engineer team”, (p. 309, para. 4). A goal of assigning staff members job roles, is to reduce confusion of work related tasks.

This report is about software engineering project failures. In this report, I will first examine the importance of a good software engineering manager to a project. Then, I will identify major reasons for software engineering project fails within the software industry. At last, some suggestion about reducing project failure rates according to the knowledge and best practices will be provided.

To enhance the delivery of the software program, Global Investment met a software developer to provide the software code, and during the project implementation, there were series of problems that occurred which nearly led to the project breakdown. Typically, there were series of misunderstanding regarding the project requirements, and management could not stick to the decision with regard to the project requirements. Moreover, management of Global Investment constantly changes their decisions concerning the project requirements and the deadline set for the project was unreliable.

Software developers and software engineers face considerable challenges while attempting to plan, design, implement and complete software development projects. Key challenges facing software development project leaders and other professionals include coping with increasing diversity, responding to demands for reduced delivery times and developing software

Abstract- In software designing every phase consume some resources and some cost which is associated with these resources. In every case the cost of software is vary with the development duration of the software. The most important work done by the project manager is to maintain the balance between time