Resumen
The article explores short-term and long-term remedies for runaway software projects. Adding people is a particularly interesting remedy, because researcher Fred Brooks has said that adding more people to a late project makes it even later. The reason, of course, is that integrating new people adds learning curve costs. Nevertheless, this is a relatively easily applied remedy. Spending more money can be paired with the extending the schedule. Reducing project scope is not always possible to reduce the scope of a project that is, to eliminate requirements in order to make the task manageable. But it is usually possible to defer some requirements or features. There is an increasing trend toward the use of outside people on internal projects. Academics say that their best students are increasingly being hired, not by the companies using computing solutions, but by consulting firms, software houses, or service vendors who provide those services for hire. Changing methodologies or technologies in midstream may traumatize a project and guarantee its failure.