The software engineering global model

Despite the economic and functional importance of software systems in modern organizations, software development and maintenance are still regarded as high-risk activities. Indeed, a great number of software projects fail to deliver software systems meeting stakeholder requirements within schedule and budget. So, the software industry is in crisis, the so-called "software crisis", which has two main ramifications, economic and social. This paper provides a framework, called the "software engineering global model" composed of two parts - static and dynamic - which provides basic foundations to build instruments eliminating the causes of the "software crisis" and reducing its impact.