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Economics of Software Development

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For example, about which software to buy, which Features in the development backlog should be implemented next, what prices to charge for products and services. Software development is an exercise in microeconomics, since it deals with limited resources - time, cost, and what value is produced in exchange for the time and money.

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Is Software Development Art or Engineering

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I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. Signal processing is a domain of software development well suited to the paradigm of engineered systems. The design of the code was straight forward.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

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By education and training, I’m actually a software developer. Well, because according to PMI, the Project Management Institute, 45% of projects experience scope expansion, 32% failed on their budgeting, and 16% were deemed complete failures. And then I came back and started using it in larger government programs.

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Biases in Project Management and How to Remove Them

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With these business principles of software development and projects in general, we can ask and answer five principles of project success. What is the Plan to reach done at the needed time for the needed budget, with the needed outcomes? 4] Microeconomics and Risk Management in Decision Making for S oftware Development. [5]

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Risk Management Resources

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Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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What Is IT Management? Why Is IT Important for Businesses?

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They include computer programmers, web developers, support specialists, IT technicians, network engineers, database administrators, software engineers, computer scientists, data scientists and IT security specialists. However, the organization isn’t the sole focus of IT governance. That’s only a few.

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Two Parallel Processes of Project Success - Both Value and Delivery are Needed

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Software development is a Value Creaton activity, but Value cannot be determined unless we know the cost to produce that value and when that value will be available for use by those who of paid for that Value. For software development, those scarce resources are people, time, and money. Microeconomics .

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