Improving Software Development at Scale: Promise and Pitfalls

Software (as frequently observed) is hard. And software development at scale is particularly hard. Evidence suggests a strong inverse relationship between the likelihood of a software project delivering its planned benefits (within budgeted costs) and the project’s size. While this is nothing new, we should ask why has there been so little improvement over the years.



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