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The design of complex information systems : common sense methods for success
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ISBN: 0070065063 Year: 1983 Publisher: New York London Paris McGraw-Hill

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Objectgeoriënteerd software-ontwerp
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ISBN: 9062336809 Year: 1991 Publisher: Schoonhoven Academic Service


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Toepassing van UML : software-engineering met objecten en componenten
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ISBN: 903951447X Year: 2000 Publisher: Schoonhoven : Academic service informatica,


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Software system design methods : the challenge of advanced computing technology : proceedings of the Nato advanced study institute on the challenge of advanced computing technology to system design methods, held at Grey College, University of Durham, U.K., July 29-August 10, 1985
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ISBN: 038716765X 354016765X 3642828485 3642828469 Year: 1986 Volume: vol 22 Publisher: Berlin Heidelberg New York Springer

Software prototyping, formal methods and VDM
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ISBN: 020117572X 9780201175721 Year: 1988 Publisher: [Lieu de publication inconnu]: Addison-Wesley,

Agile software development : principles, patterns, and practices.
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ISBN: 0135974445 Year: 2003 Publisher: Upper Saddle River Prentice Hall

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Section 1 Agile development &#13;Section 2 Agile design &#13;Section 3 The payroll case study &#13;Section 4 Packaging the payroll system &#13;Section 5 The weather station case study &#13;Section 6 The ETS case study&#13;&#13;

Software development failures : anatomy of abandoned projects
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ISBN: 128209629X 9786612096297 0262256088 9780585480834 0585480834 9780262256087 9780585480831 9780262050722 0262262576 0262050722 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

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Failed or abandoned software development projects cost the U.S. economy alone billions of dollars a year. In Software Development Failures, Kweku Ewusi-Mensah offers an empirically grounded study that suggests why these failures happen and how they can be avoided. Case studies analyzed include the well-known Confirm travel industry reservation program, FoxMeyer's Delta, the IRS's Tax System Modernization, the Denver International Airport's Baggage Handling System, and CODIS. It has been estimated that one-third of software development projects fail or are abandoned outright because of cost overruns, delays, and reduced functionality. Some consider this an acceptable risk -- that it is simply the cost of doing business. Ewusi-Mensah argues that understanding the factors involved in development failures will help developers and businesses bring down the rate of software failure and abandoned projects. Ewusi-Mensah explores the reasons software development projects are vulnerable to failure and why issues of management and organization are at the core of any failed project. He examines these projects not from a deterministically technical perspective but as part of a complex technical and social process; he proposes a framework of factors that contribute to the decision to abandon a project and enumerates the risks and uncertainties inherent in each phase of a project's life cycle. Exploring the multiplicity of factors that make software development risky, he presents empirical data that is reinforced by analyses of the reported cases. He emphasizes the role of the user in the development process and considers the effect of organizational politics on a project. Finally, he considers what lessons can be learned from past failures and how software development practices can be improved.

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