Lessons learned from modeling the dynamics of software development

  • Authors:
  • Tarek K. Abdel-Hamid;Stuart E. Madnick

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

Software systems development has been plagued by cost overruns, late deliveries, poor reliability, and user dissatisfaction. This article presents a paradigm for the study of software project management that is grounded in the feedback systems principles of system dynamics.