r, usually on a time and materials basis. Following the assessment, they are able to better tell the client what the job will cost. While a portion of the need for the assessment is legitimate, information technology projects are well known for running well over their budgets and taking far longer (than planned) from a scheduling perspective.
Software, today, is a very big, globally oriented business. It has been estimated (Abel-Hamid, 1991, p. 1) that expenditures (in the United States) for software development and maintenance were $70 billion in 1985 with projections for these costs to grow to over $450 billion by 1995. At these
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