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A 12 page paper discussing building an e-commerce application based on software factories. The standard method of software development is one that, compared to other business functions that demand speed, efficiency and value instead delivers slipped schedules, high cost and often poor quality. The use of software factories can greatly shorten development time, reduce development costs and improve quality, and in fact has the ability to transform the software development paradigm. The purpose here is to explore software factories, issues leading to their emergence and then designing an e-commerce application with software factories central to its business. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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software development is one that, compared to other business functions that demand speed, efficiency and value instead delivers slipped schedules, high cost and often poor quality. The use of
software factories can greatly shorten development time, reduce development costs and improve quality, and in fact has the ability to transform the software development paradigm.
The standard approach to software development today looks very much like the business structure common prior to discovering the need for downsizing and increasing productivity. As business
has been radically altered in the past two decades, software factories have the potential of having the same effect on software development. The purpose here is to explore software
factories, issues leading to their emergence and then designing an e-commerce application with software factories central to its business. The State of Software Development
It is often said that crisis is a prime motivator for change, for when everything works as planned and designed, then there is no reason to change any part
of it. The state of software development clearly and desperately calls for change in our approach to it. Greenfield, Short, Cook and Kent (2004) explain the current state
of software development: According to the Standish Group, businesses in the United States spend about $250 billion annually on software development, with the cost of the average project ranging from
$430,000 to $2,300,000, depending on company size. Only 16% of these projects are completed on schedule and within budget" (Greenfield, Short, Cook and Kent, 2004; p. 3).
Of the remainder, 31 percent are canceled and 53 percent overrun original budgets "by an average of 189%, creating losses of $59 billion annually" (Greenfield,
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