Software Process Models and Analysis on Failure of Software Development Projects

TL;DR

This paper discusses various software process models and analyzes the causes of software project failures, highlighting the need for new research to improve development success rates.

Contribution

It provides an overview of existing process models and analyzes failure causes, emphasizing the importance of developing new approaches to reduce project failures.

Findings

Current process models are insufficient to prevent failures

Software project failures often result from process deficiencies

There is a need for new research in software process modeling

Abstract

The software process model consists of a set of activities undertaken to design, develop and maintain software systems. A variety of software process models have been designed to structure, describe and prescribe the software development process. The software process models play a very important role in software development, so it forms the core of the software product. Software project failure is often devastating to an organization. Schedule slips, buggy releases and missing features can mean the end of the project or even financial ruin for a company. Oddly, there is disagreement over what it means for a project to fail. In this paper, discussion is done on current process models and analysis on failure of software development, which shows the need of new research.