Success and Failure of Software Development: Practitioners' Perspective

摘要

The success or failure of Software Project management consists of two components, namely the technical and non-technical components of software development. Non-technical related components of software development process tend to be under managed. Further research on success and failure of software projects developed in-house are sparse. Therefore a study was conducted in India among the industries that are into in-house software development, to investigate the influence of the non-technical components of the software development process, on success and failure of software development from the practitioners' perspective. The study reveals that practitioners' consider the level of customer/user involvement, software process management, and estimation & schedule contribute most to project success and failure.