Title: Computing calamities: Lessons learned from products, projects, and companies that failed
Publisher: Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J.
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0130828629
ISBN 13: 9780130828620
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Near Fine

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Collects stories of software failures and other failures related to computers in the business world from newspapers, computing periodicals, and other sources. Meant to instruct managers in strategies to avoid, the stories come from such companies as Atari, Wang, Seiko, AT&T, and Citicorp. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Robert Glass is an author and consultant on software quality issues who has written more than 10 books on the topic. He owns his own company, Computing Trends, and writes a column on software Engineering for ACM Communications Magazine. He is also author of Software Runaways: Lessons Learned from Massive Software Project Failures.

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