05/03/2026

After surveying more than 4000 projects, Capers Jones reported that the software industry on the whole is probably about 35 percent efficient (Jones 1994). The other 65 percent of the time is spent on harmful or unproductive activities such as use of productivity tools that don’t work, repair of carelessly developed modules, work lost because of lack of configuration control, and so on.

— Steve McConnell, Rapid Development