NDLI: Software development contracts: the impact of the provider's risk of financial loss on project success

Please wait, while we are loading the content...

Cross-disciplinary perspectives on collaborations with software engineers

Towards effective teams for the identification of code smells

A preliminary evaluation of a gamification framework to jump start collaboration behavior change

Tailoring gamification to requirements elicitation: a stakeholder centric motivation concept

Towards understanding the relationships between interdependence and trust in software development: a qualitative research

Motivation for self-assignment: factors Agile software developers consider

Beyond dashboards: on the many facets of metrics and feedback in Agile organizations

Team maturity in software engineering teams: a work in progress

Intertemporal choice: decision making and time in software engineering

Inadequate testing, time pressure, and (over) confidence: a tale of continuous integration users

Software development contracts: the impact of the provider's risk of financial loss on project success

What do developers want?: an advisor approach for developer priorities

Using gamification to orient and motivate students to contribute to OSS projects

Characterization of autonomy and interdependence in software engineering

The tech-talk balance: what technical interviewers expect from technical candidates

A fourth explanation to Brooks' law: the aspect of group developmental psychology

ID3P: iterative data-driven development of persona based on quantitative evaluation and revision

Is it possible to disregard obsolete requirements?: an initial experiment on a potentially new bias in software effort estimation

Software development contracts: the impact of the provider's risk of financial loss on project success

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Jørgensen, Magne
Abstract	Contracts differ in the extent to which software providers risk financial loss in the case of cost overruns. In this paper, we hypothesise that an increase in the provider's risk of financial loss is related to an increased rate of problematic software projects. The hypothesis is tested by comparing software projects using target-price contracts with and without an upper limit on risk sharing. These two contract variants differ mainly in the provider's risk of financial loss. If the provider's risk of a financial loss makes a difference, we would expect that projects using target-price contracts with an upper limit on risk sharing would perform worse than projects using target-price contracts without an upper limit on risk sharing. Data were collected from 24 software professionals who had project experience with both contract variants. The software professionals were asked to assess the success of their last projects when using each of the two contract variants and their general experience with using them. We found that projects using target-price contracts with an upper limit on risk sharing were, on average, less successful. In addition, the respondents' general experience with the two target-price contract variants suggested that including an upper limit on risk sharing is related to less provider focus on delivering client benefits and with more client effort spent on project administration and monitoring. We conclude that placing more of the financial risk for cost overruns on the provider side tend to increase the likelihood of project problems.
Starting Page	30
Ending Page	35
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781538640395
DOI	10.1109/CHASE.2017.1
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2017-05-20
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Software project Provider-client interaction Target price contract Contract type Risk sharing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

Central Library (ISO-9001:2015 Certified)
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Kharagpur, West Bengal, India | PIN - 721302

See location in the Map
03222 282435
Mail: support@ndl.gov.in

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in