Software Development has four primary objectives:

• Provide software based services that deliver value to the users
• Is of sufficient quality
• Delivered on time and within budget

In addition there are several subsidiary objectives:

• Adequately engineered to be a platform for possible future changes
• To be efficient enough to use
• Preserving the economic viability of the team
• Reducing costs in future versions of the product
• and reducing costs across related projects and products
• Improving the job satisfaction of team members and providing for their professional development to reduce costs
• Meeting external criteria and mandates (e.g. CMMI conformance)
• Achieving organisational performance targets (e.g. schedule, quality, customer satisfaction, financial targets, team member satisfaction,…)