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- From: greyham@research.canon.oz.au (Graham Stoney)
- Subject: Re: Software costs revisited?
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- Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia
- References: <1992Jul20.120345.26472@cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 03:10:49 GMT
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- gregor@cs.tu-berlin.de (Gregor Engelmeier) writes:
- >In Brad Cox's book: "Object Oriented Programming" from 1986, he
- >quotes an inquiery carried through by the U.S. Goverment Accounting
- >Office in 1979, in wich a breakdown of software costs versus actual
- >results is performed (FGMSD-80-4). The results at that time were:
-
- Just as badly misquoted then as now. Check the study again; these results were
- from a survey of projects _that were known to be in trouble at the time_. They
- do _not_ represent a cross section of all software projects.
-
- Graham
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