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The long term view is not always popular in any business. The need to show a profit within a fixed accounting period provides a strong incentive for short term-ism.
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Low, G.C. and Jeffrey, D.R. (1991) Software development productivity and back end CASE tools, Information and Software Technology, 33(9) 616–621.
Boehm, B. (1981) Software Engineering Economics, Prentice-Hall, New York.
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Gillies, A.C., Smith, P. (1994). The long term view. In: Managing Software Engineering. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7188-3_9
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