A Halter and A Lead Rope. A Warning to New Government Software Development Managers of Experiences of Those Who Have Gone Before Them

Abstract

This paper will scrutinize the present state of both commercial and military software development where failure of new projects and programming for poor performance is the norm. In addition to scrutinizing the current state of software development, this study will investigate commercial experiences, the Best Practice's methodology and their applicability to military projects. The fundamental approach to this investigation will be to analyze current management of commercial and Department of Defense software acquisition programs. This paper will encompass the following three main subject areas: (1) Past performance failures; (2) Best Practices, examples and techniques; (3) General recommendations on how the Army can improve the software development environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA366827

Entities

People

  • Roy J. Jensen

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Business Administration
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Defense Systems
  • Employment
  • Information Systems
  • Management Personnel
  • National Security
  • Operating Systems
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Software Development
  • Students
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Economics
  • Systems Analysis and Design