NDLI: Economic rationale of high cost and slow delivery in software development

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Wang, Yifan Wolf, James R.
Abstract	Software development process management has been widely recognized as a critical domain for project success, both within and outside of the IT profession. Unfortunately, this process has been anything but smooth in practice. Many software projects are delivered with extremely high costs and painful delivery delays. Although IT professionals are now equipped with better development tools and management knowledge. Still, many challenges associated with software development have yet to be overcome. There are still an unacceptably high number of software project failures. In this paper, we investigate the case where software project development is contracted to outside professionals. We find that, by leveraging delivery pace or cost performance measure, software client can improve its payoff while upholding software developer's payoff unchanged. In other words, high cost and slow delivery represent management control mechanism in the software development process.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	4
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01635948
DOI	10.1145/1988997.2003646
Journal	ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (SOEN)
Volume Number	36
Issue Number	4
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1979-04-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Economic analysis Software contract Software crisis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Economic rationale of high cost and slow delivery in software development