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2006-04-01

Why Big Software Projects Fail: The 12 Key Questions

Watts S. Humphrey - Why Big Software Projects Fail: The 12 Key Questions:

"The problem is that, with current software practices, the developers do not know where they stand any more than the managers do. The developers know what they are doing, but they do not have personal plans, they do not measure their work, and they do not track their progress. Without these practices to guide them, software people do not know with any precision where they are in the job. They could tell the manager that they are pretty close to schedule or 90 percent done with coding, but the fact is that they do not really know. Again, as Brooks said, "...programmers generally think that they are 90 percent through with the coding for more than half of the project."