| Description |
xiv, 302 pages |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: What's So Great About Failure? -- 2. Overview: The Many Faces of Failure -- 3. Keep Your Eyes on the Enterprise: Stories of Corporate Failure -- 4. Mission Impossible's Dirty Little Secrets: Stories of Project and Product Failure -- 5. The Taming of the Shrewd: Stories of Failures of the Best and Brightest -- 6. Summary: Now Remind Me - What's So Great About Failure? |
| Summary |
Many great advances in technology have resulted from risky experimentation, but it's critical to remember and study the spectacular failures that also resulted from some of those risks. Failures can be mundane, like the typical complaints of software projects that are behind schedule and over budget, while others can be much more extravagant. In Computing Calamities, Robert L. Glass has collected war stories from around the industry. Laugh at these mistakes, and learn from them. Someone else's failure could be the foundation of your success |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Computer industry -- United States -- Management -- Case studies.
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Computer software industry -- United States -- Management -- Case studies.
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Corporate turnarounds -- United States -- Case studies.
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| LC no. |
98040889 |
| ISBN |
0130828629 (paperback) |
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