Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering 8th Edition by Stephen Schach

Exercise 7

To compare two different team organizations, TO 1 and TO 2 , within a large software company, the following experiment is proposed. The same software product will be built by two different teams, one organized according to TO1 and the other according to TO 2. The company estimates that each team will take about 18 months to build the product. Give three reasons why this experiment is impractical and unlikely to yield meaningful results.