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  2. List of failed and overbudget custom software projects

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    Because software, unlike a major civil engineering construction project, is often easy and cheap to change after it has been constructed, a piece of custom software that fails to deliver on its objectives may sometimes be modified over time in such a way that it later succeeds—and/or business processes or end-user mindsets may change to accommodate the software.

  3. Talk : List of failed and overbudget custom software projects

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    If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. Software Wikipedia:WikiProject Software Template:WikiProject Software software: Mid: This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. This article is supported by WikiProject Computing.

  4. Death march (project management) - Wikipedia

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    WARSIM, a U.S. Army wargame. [3] [4] [5] The latter project was originally called WARSIM 2000 at its inception in the early 1990s.Several decades after its original scheduled delivery date, WARSIM had yet to support a single Army training exercise, but is still being funded, largely to vindicate those who conceived of the system and defended it over the lifetime of its development.

  5. Application lifecycle management - Wikipedia

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    ALM is a broader perspective than the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), which is limited to the phases of software development such as requirements, design, coding, testing, configuration, project management, and change management. ALM continues after development until the application is no longer used, and may span many SDLCs.

  6. Gold plating (project management) - Wikipedia

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    In time management, gold plating is the phenomenon of working on a project or task past the point of diminishing returns.. For example, after having met a project's requirements, the manager or the developer works on further enhancing the product, thinking that the customer will be delighted to see additional or more polished features, beyond that which what was asked for or expected.

  7. Freeze (software engineering) - Wikipedia

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    For example, a project may have a "stable" branch from which new versions of the software are released, and a separate "development" branch in which the developers add new code. The effect of a freeze is then to prevent promotion of some or all changes from the development branch to the stable branch. In other words, the freeze applies only to ...

  8. Software maintenance - Wikipedia

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    Software maintenance is the modification of software after delivery. [1]As per the IEEE standard glossary of software engineering terminology, software maintenance refers to the process of modifying and updating software after its initial development and deployment, to correct faults, improve performance or other attributes, add new features to meet evolving user requirements, or adapt to a ...

  9. npm left-pad incident - Wikipedia

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    As a result, thousands of software projects that used left-pad as a dependency, including the Babel transcompiler and the React web framework, were unable to be built or installed. This caused widespread disruption, as technology corporations small and large, including Facebook , PayPal , Netflix and Spotify , used left-pad in their software ...