Success and failure in software engineering are still among the least understood phenomena in the discipline. In a recent special journal issue on the topic, Mantyla et al. started discussing these topics from different angles; the authors focused their contributions on offering a general overview of both topics without deeper detail. Recognising the importance and impact of the topic, we have executed a followup, more in-depth systematic literature review with additional analyses beyond what was previously provided. These new analyses offer: (a) a grounded-theory of success and failure factors, harvesting over 500+ factors from the literature; (b) 14 manually-validated clusters of factors that provide relevant areas for success- and failure-specific measurement and risk-analysis; (c) a quality model composed of previously unmeasured organizational structure quantities which are germane to software product, process, and community quality. We show that the topics of success and failure deserve further study as well as further automated tool support, e.g., monitoring tools and metrics able to track the factors and patterns emerging from our study. This paper provides managers with risks as well as a more fine-grained analysis of the parameters that can be appraised to anticipate the risks.

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软件工程的成功与失败：后续系统文献综述

软件工程中的成功和失败仍然是该学科中最不为人知的现象。在最近关于该主题的特刊中，Mantyla 等人。开始从不同的角度讨论这些话题；作者将他们的贡献集中在对这两个主题的总体概述上，而没有更深入的细节。认识到该主题的重要性和影响，我们进行了后续的、更深入的系统性文献回顾，并进行了超出先前提供的分析的额外分析。这些新的分析提供：(a) 成功和失败因素的扎根理论，从文献中收集了 500 多个因素；(b) 14 个人工验证的因素集群，为特定成功和失败的衡量和风险分析提供相关领域；(c) 一个质量模型，由以前未测量的组织结构数量组成，这些数量与软件产品、过程和社区质量密切相关。我们表明成功和失败的主题值得进一步研究以及进一步的自动化工具支持，例如能够跟踪我们研究中出现的因素和模式的监控工具和指标。本文为管理人员提供了风险以及对可以评估以预测风险的参数的更细粒度的分析。