Abstract
While the complexity of software-based products has increased enormously over the past decade, the increased cost of software development goes far beyond that which can be explained by this increased complexity. The single most glaring cause of this cost increase is the lack of effective leadership within software development projects. This lack of leadership is due to an ineffective university educational system for software engineers, poor planning and estimation of software projects, and a divergence between software and product development technologies. In today's software development environment, researchers, academics, engineers, and managers are focusing more and more energy toward developing software engineering as a science in order to deal with the increasing complexity of software applications. In so doing, there is a trend toward losing sight of the product, application, and technology for which the software is being developed, thus creating a gap between software and product development. This trend is a primary cause of increasing software development costs and the bridging of the gap requires effective leadership and project management within the software design teams.
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