| 摘要 |
Industry statistics show that there is a persistent and high rate of IT Projects that fail to meet their goals in terms of budget, schedule, or user satisfaction. My invention is based on the observation that the software development process produces undesirable outcomes when there are inconsistencies between certain process artifacts. I refer to such inconsistencies as breakpoints (or alternatively as breakage points). Breakpoints cause there to be an undesirable divergence between what was expected as the outcome and what actually transpires as the outcome. My invention consists of a method for preventing undesirable outcomes in the software development process by: identifying the potential breakpoints within a specific instance of a business process; applying a set of procedures to detect the existence and severity of actual breakpoints; and applying curative measures to remove detected breakpoints and applying proactive measures to prevent the development of breakpoints. |
