Product Description: This book contains fictionalized tales about real failed computing projects. The book is a classic in its field; it has been reprinted 3 times, and its lessons learned are as fresh today as they were when it was originally written.

Product Description: It's the electronic age, and computers are all around us. They help us; they hinder us; but they aren't going away. Some would call this the greatest success story of our time. But along the way there have been failure stories, as well...read more

Product Description: Real "what happened and why" stories about some well-known microcomputer companies that failed. What happened to the pioneers, like MITS and IMSAI? Why did Texas Instruments get out of the business? What caused Steve Jobs to leave Apple, the company he brought up from nothing? These questions and many more are answered here...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays explores the role of creativity in the construction of software, with a focus on polarities of viewpoint, such as: discipline versus flexibility, formal methods versus heuristics, quantitative versus qualitative reasoning, process versus product, intellectual versus clerical activity, theory versus practice, and industry versus academe...read more

Product Description: The ISO 9000 standard as it applies to the software industry, is becoming increasingly important as many European firms that purchase software now require it. This text covers what the ISO 9000 standard is, how it is applied to software development, where it stands in the overall world of software quality approaches, and what has happened in specific applications of the standard...read more

Product Description: This book gets at the essence of software quality based on the premise that quality is at heart a technical problem, and that management's job is to create a facilitating environment. It fully explains the quality techniques available to the dedicated technologist, the ways that management can facilitate quality, and offers case studies...read more

Examines sixteen software disasters, including the IRS modernization, and identifies six characteristics of projects likely to fail (view table of contents)

Product Description: Capturing where we are today through a tour of yesterday's achievements and helping us better understand the evolution of computing technology, this book recounts the experiences of those who formed and functioned in the "Pioneering Era...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In his follow-up to the best-selling Software Runaways, Robert Glass brings together 30 of the worst computer-industry failures of all time -- and shows how you can prevent disaster from happening to you. Computer Calamities is organized into six short sections, each featuring a collection of articles relating to a particular type of computer-industry disaster...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "The author knows whereof he speaks. His material is sound, up-to-date, and appropriate. Robert N. Britcher has inside knowledge on one of the most dramatic software stories of our time." --Robert L. Glass President, Computing Trends What really goes on inside the world of software development? How do straightforward projects with well-defined goals mutate into large-scale disasters? How do personalities, ambitions, work environments, and time and cost limitations impact the creation of software? In a book that is both personal and technical, Robert N...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Understanding why software projects fail is the best way to make sure yours succeeds -- and the dotcom boom and bust teaches powerful new lessons every manager and developer must heed. Now, Robert Glass, the world's #1 expert on software project failure, has brought together dozens of the latest computer disasters -- on and off the Web...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The practice of building software is a “new kid on the block” technology. Though it may not seem this way for those who have been in the field for most of their careers, in the overall scheme of professions, software builders are relative “newbies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Software Conflict 2.0: The Art and Science of Software Engineering updates and expands a neglected classic in the field. The nearly 60 essays in this book--always easily digestible, often profound, and never too serious--are the work of pioneer Robert L...read more

Product Description: "This book is written from a powerfully felt, personal perspective: that software construction is primarily a problem-solving activity; that all problem-solving requires creativity; that software problem-solving is deeply complex, perhaps more deeply complex than any other activity; and that, therefore, software problem-solving requires the ultimate in creativity...read more

Product Description: Betrayal! Corruption! Software engineering?Industry experts Johann Rost and Robert L. Glass explore the seamy underbelly of software engineering in this timely report on and analysis of the prevalance of subversion, lying, hacking, and espionage on every level of software project management...read more