ABSTRACT

Software project failure has cost trillions of dollars over the past fifty years. The many reasons for failure are widely discussed in the project management and software development literatures. This paper assesses methods for software project forensic analysis to develop principles and practices that would provide a comprehensive and more complete understanding of the why, when, where, how, and what causes software project failure. This paper discusses the approaches followed to determine the causes of failures, examines the issues and challenges of assessing failures, and proposes a structured approach (forensic analysis) for determining the causes of software project failures.

摘要

在过去的 50 年里，软件项目的失败已经造成了数万亿美元的损失。许多失败的原因在项目管理和软件开发文献中被广泛讨论。本文评估了软件项目取证分析的方法，以制定原则和实践，从而全面、更全面地了解导致软件项目失败的原因、时间、地点、方式和原因。本文讨论了确定失败原因的方法，检查了评估失败的问题和挑战，并提出了一种确定软件项目失败原因的结构化方法（取证分析）。