Software Engineering
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
PROJECT – I
INTRODUCTION:
The goal of this paper is to analyze about three major software projects namely
• The London Ambulance System
• The Virtual Case File
• The Automatic Baggage System
By analyzing these software projects and the software engineering principles followed, the key factors responsible for the software projects failure can be understood. Each of these projects has failed miserable as they didn’t follow proper software engineering principles. In this term paper the following projects have been studied and reason for their failures are identified. Finally there is a comparison off all the three software projects studied.
The methodology followed in writing this term paper is reading the following reference materials available in the internet and extracting the key points for the failures of the software projects. The papers referenced for writing the following term paper are
1. H. Goldstein. Who Killed the Virtual Case File? IEEE Spectrum, Sept. 2005, pp. 24–35.
2. Statement of Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, US Dept. of Justice, 27 July 2005.
3. A. Finkelstein and J. Dowell. A Comedy of Errors: the London Ambulance Service Case Study.
4. Report of the Inquiry into the London Ambulance Service (February 1993), by A. Finkelstein,
5. Richard de Neufville. “The Baggage System at Denver: Prospects and Lessons,” Journal of Air
6. Barry Shore. “Systematic Biases and Culture in Project Failures,” Project Management Journal
CONCLUSION:
The conclusion after studying these three papers, for any software projects the good principles of software engineering should be followed.
• The software development process should be properly planned with achievable and realistic deadlines. All the three projects had poor planning with unrealistic deadlines.
• Great importance should be given to the requirements
PROJECT – I
INTRODUCTION:
The goal of this paper is to analyze about three major software projects namely
• The London Ambulance System
• The Virtual Case File
• The Automatic Baggage System
By analyzing these software projects and the software engineering principles followed, the key factors responsible for the software projects failure can be understood. Each of these projects has failed miserable as they didn’t follow proper software engineering principles. In this term paper the following projects have been studied and reason for their failures are identified. Finally there is a comparison off all the three software projects studied.
The methodology followed in writing this term paper is reading the following reference materials available in the internet and extracting the key points for the failures of the software projects. The papers referenced for writing the following term paper are
1. H. Goldstein. Who Killed the Virtual Case File? IEEE Spectrum, Sept. 2005, pp. 24–35.
2. Statement of Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, US Dept. of Justice, 27 July 2005.
3. A. Finkelstein and J. Dowell. A Comedy of Errors: the London Ambulance Service Case Study.
4. Report of the Inquiry into the London Ambulance Service (February 1993), by A. Finkelstein,
5. Richard de Neufville. “The Baggage System at Denver: Prospects and Lessons,” Journal of Air
6. Barry Shore. “Systematic Biases and Culture in Project Failures,” Project Management Journal
CONCLUSION:
The conclusion after studying these three papers, for any software projects the good principles of software engineering should be followed.
• The software development process should be properly planned with achievable and realistic deadlines. All the three projects had poor planning with unrealistic deadlines.
• Great importance should be given to the requirements
References: 1. H. Goldstein. Who Killed the Virtual Case File? IEEE Spectrum, Sept. 2005, pp. 24–35. 2. Statement of Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, US Dept. of Justice, 27 July 2005. 3. A. Finkelstein and J. Dowell. A Comedy of Errors: the London Ambulance Service Case Study. Proc. 8th Int. Workshop on Software Specification and Design (IWSSD96), pp. 2–4, Velen, Germany, 1996. 4. Report of the Inquiry into the London Ambulance Service (February 1993), International Workshop on Software Specification and Design Case Study. Electronic Version Prepared by A. Finkelstein, with kind permission from the Communications Directorate, South West Thames Regional Health Authority. 5. Richard de Neufville. “The Baggage System at Denver: Prospects and Lessons,” Journal of Air Transport Management, Vol. 1, No. 4, Dec. 1994, pp. 229–236. 6. Barry Shore. “Systematic Biases and Culture in Project Failures,” Project Management Journal, Vol. 39, No. 4, 2008, pp. 5–16.