Abstract
Seven second-year students from this department were involved in the development of commercial software as a trial project for practical IT engineering education. Although delivery of the project was delayed approximately one month beyond the originally scheduled deadline of three and a half months, the outsourcing company greatly appreciated the work done by the students. Moreover, the project members, who struggled with the unfamiliar development work, gave positive feedback for the project. Analysis indicates that the delay in delivering primarily resulted from an insufficient training period and misassignment of tasks in the early phases of the project. Based on this experience, our project indicates that these factors should be avoidable, and we found that future commercial software development projects involving university students would be successful. This paper reports the results of quantitative and qualitative analysis of the factors causing the delivery of a commercial software project to be delayed, based on the actual development time and source code.
