AJ McClary » software development http://www.ajmcclary.com Located in Washington DC/Northern Virginia Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:12:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Armedia.com Blog: Software design is in crisishttp://www.ajmcclary.com/armedia-com-blog-software-design-is-in-crisis.html http://www.ajmcclary.com/armedia-com-blog-software-design-is-in-crisis.html#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:51:11 +0000 A.J. McClary http://www.ajmcclary.com/?p=775 In the 90’s, when ECM solutions were rare, we could get away with designing solely toward requirements, but there is too much at stake nowadays. A recent study sampling various IT projects reported that:

  • 62% percent of projects fail to meet their schedules
  • 49% are over budget
  • 47% have higher than expected maintenance costs
  • And get this—25% are canceled before they are ever deployed!

If you’ve been in the software industry long enough, you’ve probably seen all of these things happen. The funny thing is, it doesn’t really come down schedule, cost, or requirements—it comes from bad design. When software companies think design, they’re thinking about contractual obligations and meeting commitments with their stakeholders.

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