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Relationship between people and effort

The relationship between the number of people and time to develop an application is not linear. It is not as simple as a 120 man-day project can be developed by 1 person working for 120 days or 120 people working for 1 day. The communication and coordination overhead plays a very significant role.

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Types of Risks

Each project is faced with many types of risks. These include:

• Project risks
  • Will impact schedule and cost
  • Includes budgetary, schedule, personnel, resource, customer, requirement problems
• Technical risks
  • Impact the quality, timelines, and cost
  • Implementation may become difficult or impossible
  • Includes design, implementation, interface, verification and maintenance problems
  • Leading edge technology
  
  

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