The mythical man-month (anniversary ed.)
The mythical man-month (anniversary ed.)
New product development: the performance and time-to-market tradeoff
Management Science
Software developer perceptions about software project failure: a case study
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on software engineering education and training for the next millennium
Software project management: the manager's view
Communications of the AIS
Ten unmyths of project estimation
Communications of the ACM
Software development cost estimation approaches – A survey
Annals of Software Engineering
Empirically Guided Software Effort Guesstimation
IEEE Software
Software project risks and their effect on outcomes
Communications of the ACM - Human-computer etiquette
What drives mobile commerce? An empirical evaluation of the revised technology acceptance model
Information and Management
Journal of Management Information Systems
Software cost estimation using economic production models
Journal of Management Information Systems
Software processes and project performance
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Information technology and its organizational impact
Total quality management in information systems development: key constructs and relationships
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Exploring the outlands of the MIS discipline
A Systematic Review of Software Development Cost Estimation Studies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A review of studies on expert estimation of software development effort
Journal of Systems and Software
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Software project escalation is a costly problem that leads to significant financial losses. Prior research suggests that setting a publicly announced limit on resources can make individuals less willing to escalate their commitment to a failing course of action. However, the relationship between initial budget and schedule goals and software project escalation remains unexplored. Drawing on goal setting theory as well as sunk cost and mental budgeting perspectives, we explore the effect of goal difficulty and goal specificity on software project escalation. The findings from a laboratory experiment with 349 information technology professionals suggest that both very difficult and very specific goals for budget and schedule can limit software project escalation. Further, the level of commitment to a budget and schedule goal directly affects software project escalation and also interacts with goal difficulty and goal specificity to affect software project escalation. This study makes a theoretical contribution to the existing body of knowledge on software project management by establishing a connection between goal setting theory and software project escalation. The study also contributes to practice by highlighting the potential negative consequences that can result from the nature of initial budget and schedule goals that are established at the outset of a project.