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Alan Cooper's The Inmates: Are Running The Asylum
Alan Cooper's The Inmates: Are Running The Asylum
Computers make it easy to get into trouble Commercial software suffers, too Techno rage An industry in denial Origins of this book
Other reading
If you found Coopers opening story provocative, then I recommend
Casey, S. M., Set phasers on stun: And other true tales of design, technology, and human error, 2nd. ed: Santa Barbara, CA: Aegean Publishing Company, 1998.
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Iteration and the myth of the unpredictable market The hidden costs of bad software
The only thing more expensive that writing software is writing bad software Opportunity cost
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