Other Risks

• Customer sees no product until first release
  • Customer often cannot provide early feedback to early design, coding decisions
  • Late determination that system aims do not meet actual needs
  • Some identified features never really used
  • Some forgotten features highly desired
  • Design may anticipate different features than actually desired or needed
• Customer distant from Developer
  • Customer not actively engaged in cost overruns, delays
  • If (when?) time runs short, customer often not involved in setting priorities
  • If (when?) money short (or cost overruns arise), project may be canceled before first release
• Staff turnover (best staff may leave for new challenges before 2 years)
• Integration and testing late
  • debugging expensive
  • defect rate may be high, as integration proceeds

created April 29, 2003 last revised April 14, 2003

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