Seductive Computer : Why IT Systems Always Fail
By: Partridge, Derek.
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BookPublisher: London: Springer, 2011Description: xvi, 323 p.; ill.: 23 cm.ISBN: 9781849964975 .Subject(s): Computer system failures | Computers - Reliability | Seductive Computer | Fault-tolerant computing | System design | Computer industryDDC classification: 004 Summary: IT systems explode budget estimates, bust production deadlines by years, and then fail to work properly. Why this IT-system crisis? Poor programmers? Inadequate project management? No. ""The Seductive Computer"" argues that the fundamental nature of programming technology itself is the real culprit; it promises perfection but can only deliver emergent chaos. It is also an insidiously compelling technology, peculiarly male oriented. IT systems, an unavoidable and increasing reality in all our lives, are something new to man - large-scale discrete complexity. ""The Seductive Computer"" explains.
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IT systems explode budget estimates, bust production deadlines by years, and then fail to work properly. Why this IT-system crisis? Poor programmers? Inadequate project management? No. ""The Seductive Computer"" argues that the fundamental nature of programming technology itself is the real culprit; it promises perfection but can only deliver emergent chaos. It is also an insidiously compelling technology, peculiarly male oriented. IT systems, an unavoidable and increasing reality in all our lives, are something new to man - large-scale discrete complexity. ""The Seductive Computer"" explains.
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