Reducing the Software Value Gap.

The article focuses on methods of improving productivity and ensuring information technology (IT) value creation. It states that software development outsourcing and purchasing software packages both can involve a significant allocation of internal IT resources for systems analysis, integration with...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 5; pp. 80 - 88
Main Authors:	PASS, SHIMEON, RONEN, BOAZ
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery May2014
Subjects:	Information technology Software productivity Contracting out System analysis Data warehousing Agile software development Scrum (Computer software development) Extreme programming Computer software development Code reuse Methodology Lead time (Project management)
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	The article focuses on methods of improving productivity and ensuring information technology (IT) value creation. It states that software development outsourcing and purchasing software packages both can involve a significant allocation of internal IT resources for systems analysis, integration with other software systems, data warehouses, data migration, and more. It comments on the use of Agile, Scrum, and Extreme Programming development methodologies to increase software development productivity and talks about the use of lean techniques to improve the cost effectiveness of IT organizations. It mentions the reuse of software and the use of critical chain methodology to reduce lead times for software development projects.