Expectations of Sotware vs Traditional Engineering
I was reading recently about a comparison of traditional engineering disciplines with software and found some interesting facts that highlight some of the differences. Consider these two projects:
Project 1: completed on time, but
Project 1: completed on time, but
- Estimate cost: $4M -> actual cost $9M
- Post Release: 30% additional performance work
- Annual maintenance costs: $3M
- Budgeted time to develop: 5 years -> actual time 14 years
- Estimated cost: $7M -> actual cost $102M
- Post Release: 40M of adaptive costs
- Maintenance: $20M over 10 years

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