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From: alistair@mits.com.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.object
Subject: Software Costs vs Results
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.191804.3454@mits.com.au>
Date: 23 Apr 91 00:18:04 GMT
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In Brad Cox's "Object Oriented Programming" (ISBN 0-201-10393-1) on
page 4 he shows a pie chart indicating software costs versus results. 
Unfortunately the data is now over 10 years old.  Does anyone have a
newer version (not necessarily government data)?  For those
interested, the caption is :-

"The U.S. Government Accounting Office 1979 report (FGMSD-80-4)
describes this breakdown of results from $6.8 million in nine federal
software projects: 47% ($3.2M) were paid for but never delivered, 29%
($2.0M) were delivered but never used, 19% ($1.3M) were abandoned or
re-worked, 3% (%0.2M) were used after change, and only <2% ($0.1M)
were used as delivered."

Thanks in advance,

Alistair Grant

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