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The Computer Journal 1977 20(4):316-320; doi:10.1093/comjnl/20.4.316
© 1977 by British Computer Society
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An analysis of a software engineering failure

S. Mamrack1 * and J. M. Randal1 §

1 Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, 2036 Neil Avenue Mall, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2 Computing Services Office, University of Illinois, Illinois, USA

Historical analyses of software engineering projects that fail are rare commodities in the computer science field today. In this paper we describe the rise and fall of a professionally engineered project that was doomed to failure by strategical, technical and tactical errors which were clearly revealed by analytic hindsight.

Received April 1976.

* Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, 2036 Neil Avenue Mall, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA

§ Computing Services Office, University of Illinois


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