It fails to consider implications and relationships. Project management systems track tasks to be performed and allow for planning, but they operate without the ability to consider what really happens to the source code during the project. Indeed, these systems can be valuable to project management, but without the ability to incorporate daily changes to source code, they are out of touch with their own projects. Without a central database, today's applications function at a fraction of their potential. But managers face more strategic problems than simply developers' productivity.
Developers write lines of code, they fix bugs and write documentation.
In addition to resolving the symptoms of software development's problems, DIS frees the developers to move beyond redundant efforts. DIS can open the doors to development solutions that were once only imaginable solutions that have strategic implications. Development Information Systems are designed to enhance organizational productivity and improve software quality. The resulting increase in individual productivity, and in code and product quality that Development Information Systems deliver, is priceless. They saw their beautiful drawings replaced by sterile, but consistent, mechanically produced images.