Software Engineering (10th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780133943030
Author: Ian Sommerville
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 19, Problem 19.6E
Explain why you need to be flexible and adapt system requirements when procuring large off-the-shelf software systems, such as ERP systems. Search the web for discussions of the failures of such systems and explain, from a sociotechnical perspective, why these failures occurred. A possible starting point is: http://blog.360cloudsolutions.com/blog/bid/94028/Top-Six-ERP-Implementation-Failures
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