Candidate Term Paper

Candidate Term Papers: Failure Case Studies

Analyze projects that went wrong. Choose among projects having at least 20 pages of description. Try to find further sources.

Determine model clash patterns. Related to Success Model Clash Profiles (chart #9 in MBASE lecture)
Determine win-lose --> lose-lose situations
Determine risk items that should have been addressed

Some sources on reserve in Library:

Title	Sub-title	Author	Publisher	Year
The Day The Phones Stopped	The Computer Crisis-The What and Why of It, and How We Can Beat It	Leonard Lee	Donald I. Fine, Inc.	1990
Software Runaways	Lessons Learned from Massive Software Project Failure	Robert L. Glass	Prentice Hall	1998
Computer Related Risks		Peter G. Neumann	Addison Wesley	1995
Software Failure: Management Failure		Stephen Flowers	Wiley	1996
Anti Patterns	Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis	William J. Brown, Raphel C. malveau, Hayes W. "Skip", McCormickIII	Wiley	1998

Candidate RAD Term Papers

Elaborate a group of strategies in the RAD Opportunity Tree (RAD chart #13, EC-4)

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