Insights on Program Success

Abstract

Why do some programs fail? What are the factors that lead to program success? Two organizations, the Systems and Software Consortium, Inc. (SSCI) and the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), recently examined the reasons, and concluded that while many are technical reasons, the greatest influence is people and the things they do individually and in teams that lead to program success or failure.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA512392

Entities

People

  • Bill Thomas
  • Carol C. Woody
  • David J. Carney
  • James Kane
  • Jeannine Siviy
  • John B. Goodenough
  • Lawrence Jones
  • Mark Blackburn
  • Michael Bandor
  • Scott A. Hissam
  • Sriram Balasubramaniam
  • Susan Rose
  • Timothy Chick
  • William Peterson

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

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  • Abstracts
  • Best Practices
  • Classification
  • Complex Systems
  • Consortiums
  • Contractors
  • Copyrights
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Guarantees
  • Life Cycles
  • National Governments
  • Program Management
  • Programming Languages
  • Software Development
  • Students
  • Systems Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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  • Software Engineering.