Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.

If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as a deliverable enables its use throughout the development and maintenance process.
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Achieve Development Maintenance System Use
About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.
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Bugs Downtime Programming
Negotiation builds a team as well as a set of requirements.
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Negotiation Requirement Team
Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans.
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Agility Team Writing
Stop the life cycle-I want to get off!
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Cycle Stop Want
Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.
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Cost Management Poor Teamwork
Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.
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Cost Development Management Poor
Software engineering economics.
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Economics Engineering Software

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