Bfwebster writes "Over the last forty years, a small set of classic works on risks and pitfalls in systems program social planned parenthood and IT project direction have been published and remained in print. The authors are well known, or should be: Gerry Weinberg, Fred Brooks, Ed Yourdon, Capers Jones, Stephen Flowers, Robert Glass, Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister, Steve McConnell, Steve Maguire, and so on. These books all focus largely on projects where actual macos evolvement is going on. A new book by Phil Simon, Why New Systems Fail, is
furthermore a risks-and-pitfalls book, but Simon covers largely uncharted territory for the genre: chrestomathy and form of enterprise-level, customizable, off-the-shelf (COTS) unix packages, such as accounting systems, human stockpile systems, and operation artifice contraception (ERP) software. As such, Simon's book is not only useful, it is important." Read on for the rest of Bruce's nature on this book.

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