2212 Analysis of Factors that Lead to a Student Team Missing the Deadline for Actual Software Development

Abstract

Entrusted by a firm with part ofan actual software development project, the author organized a team composed ofseven second-year students from this department and developed software. In the end, the team completed the project about one month behind the 3. 5 month-schedule, with actual productivity ofaPproximately 38 SLOC/man-hour and an on-time rate ofapproximately 59 %. This paper analyzes the factors that lead to the team missing their deadline even though the productivity of the team was higher than that of the outsourcing firm.