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Software development is a piece of cake... or is it?

This excerpt came from a post on Gunnar Skogsholm's blog about software project failure... Software development hard. Right from the beginning there are a million things that could go wrong. This list on comes from

Software is risky business. Here's what can (and usually does) go wrong:

  • team dysfunction
  • failure to understand software (process, costs, etc) 
  • lack of leadership or vision 
  • failure to understand, communicate, document the problem domain description 
  • failure to architect a solution 
  • failure to design a software application 
  • failure of project management 
  • failure to select good tools 
  • failure to select reliable technologies 
  • failure to implement the software 
  • failure to test the software 
  • failure of quality assurance       

Software development is...            China outsourcing, India outsourcing, Pakistan outsourcing, Ukraine outsourcing, Philippines outsourcing, software development, outsourcing failure                                                                                                                                                    

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