Software development has seen an increase of 400% in the total development in 2016.
These figures have shocked the silent spectators , who are now also entering this boosting market.
Along with many success stories, there lies a long list of failures of this industry, which can be overcome in the future.
The Reasons:
The main reasons for the failure of a software projects include:
- Lack of technical knowledge by client, which results in the putting together bad requirements.
- Unplanned way of action.
- Continuous changes in system functionality.
- Hiding the requirements from development team for later production.
- Lack of documentation.
- Short shortsightedness.
- Not seeing the bigger picture of the game.
- Always focusing on the speed no matter what.
- Ignoring the quality of the system.
- Ignoring basic rules of software engineering.
- Bad database structure.
- Not following any coding standard.
- Lack of detailed testing.
- Launching without Beta Test.
- Lack of system reviews by non-technical people.
All the software development should take steps to ensure that the above mentioned things are handled so that the failure of software projects can be decreased.
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