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Best Practice for Software Development Projects

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Thu, 10/02/2003 - 00:06 — Christoph C. Cemper

Best Practices for Software Development Projects again outlines 10 best-practices for SD projects… and more than 80% of SD projects are unsuccessful — either because they are over budget, late, missing functions or a combination of all three. Moreover, 30% of software projects are so poorly executed that they are canceled before completion.

The Top-3 rules speak for themselves:

  • Recruit skilled and experienced people.
  • Use "leading-edge," not "bleeding-edge," technology
  • Use the appropriate development process … – The nature of modern software projects demands a spiral-based development process.

A spiral process has multiple phases that successively decrease the project risk. At the end of each phase is a go or no-go decision. In the early phases, prototyping is used to explore new technologies for the team or a user interface.

Well, we've been talking the whole day with customer's project manager and senior manager about exactly these topics – and fortunately they agreed with us.

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