#19 – SOFTWARE IS RISKY BUSINESS – LINDA WESTFALL

Linda Westfall HeadshotThere are many risks involved in creating high quality software on time and within budget.  With ever-increasing software complexity, increasing demands for bigger and better products, and even decreasing time to market, the software industry is a high-risk business.

When software teams don’t manage these risks, they leave their projects vulnerable to factors that can cause major rework, major cost or schedule over-runs, delivered product that don’t match their intended use requirements (for example, product that have safety, security, usability or functionality gap) or other project failures.  Continue reading