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The Rising Cost of Software Complexity

by anders pearson Mon 03 Sep 2001 13:05:00

Link: http://www.developercareers.com/ddj/articles/2001/0104/0104n/0104n.htm

TAGS: programming software engineering

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I am looking for information on why software costs are ever on the rise despite improvement in developing methods, and if developers are aware.
IMNSHO, there are a few factors: * Welcome to Capitalism, leave your soul at the door. * Inflation * The mathematician in me thinks this is obvious: companies want to maximize p*u where p is profit per unit and u is units sold. * Corporations don't want to pay upfront costs (real or perceived) to make changes to development processes * Developers are set in there ways and tend to fight changes to processes that have been around 'forever' * Bush

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