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<p>67344-2</p><p>What you can learn from 16 colossal software disasters.</p><p>If failure teaches more than success, imagine how much you can learn from the most catastrophic software development failures of all time. In Software Runaways, software failure expert Robert Glass shows exactly what went wrong in 16 colossal software disasters -- and how to keep it from happening to you.</p><p>Glass goes behind the scenes of those awful projects you've seen on the nightly news -- the Denver Airport baggage system, the IRS modernization --and a host of less well-publicized failures that are equally instructive. Along the way, he identifies six characteristics of projects likely to fail -- and some of them will surprise you.</p><p>Software Runaways brings a software engineer's perspective to projects like:</p><ul><li>American Airlines' failed reservation system, Confirm</li><li>The 4GL disaster at the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles</li><li>The NCR inventory system that nearly destroyed its customers</li><li>The next-generation FAA Air Traffic Control System that collapsed</li></ul><p>Glass presents specific lessons to be learned from each failure, and shows how to sniff out runaw

Who reads Software runaways?

Author

Robert L. Glass

Publisher

Prentice Hall PTR

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780136734437

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Management, Programming

Updated

2026-03-24