Q: Give me five common problems that occur during software development.
A: Poorly written requirements, unrealistic schedules, inadequate testing, adding new features after development is underway and poor communication.[Continued on next page...]
- Requirements are poorly written when requirements are unclear, incomplete, too general, or not testable; therefore there will be problems.
- The schedule is unrealistic if too much work is crammed in too little time.
- Software testing is inadequate if none knows whether or not the software is any good until customers complain or the system crashes.
- It's extremely common that new features are added after development is underway.
- Miscommunication either means the developers don't know what is needed, or customers have unrealistic expectations and therefore problems are guaranteed.
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