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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 33 No. 6, pp. 1465-1479


Identification of Patterns in Failure of Software Projects

BASIT SHAHZAD1, KINZA MEHR AWAN2,*, M. IKRAM-ULLAH LALI3
AND WAQAR ASLAM4
1Department of Engineering
National University of Modern Language
Islamabad, 44000 Pakistan
2Department of Computer Science and Information Technology
University of Sargodha
Sargodha, 40100 Pakistan
3Department of Software Engineering
University of Gujrat
Gujrat, 50700 Pakistan
4Department of Computer Science and Information Technology
The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
Bahawalpur, 63100 Pakistan
E-mail: {basit.shahzad@gmail.com; kinza_awan786@yahoo.com*;
ikramlali@gmail.com; waqar.aslam@iub.edu.pk}

    Software development is not an easy job to manage, in result, many projects end in failure. It has been acknowledged that despite of all mitigation techniques, the successful completion rate of the software till 2016, by the Standish group reports remains 30-40%. With an increase in the scope and investment of the software projects, this failure rate is quite high. In outsourced projects the failure rate is even more significant. The aim of this research is to explore the fundamental reasons of software failure in outsourced and in-house software projects. We have found new patterns to identify the causes of failure in software projects. To address our research questions, systematically we identified different articles from the literature that provide the evidences for causes of failure in software. We have identified thirty-seven different risks of inhouse and thirty-nine risks of outsourced software projects.

Keywords: software risks, causes of failure, inhouse and outsource software development, impact of software risks, categories of risks, SLR on failures

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