Software Project Failures: Part III -- The Software Samurai

by E.M. Bennatan

I first heard about software samurais at the April 2005 System and Software Technology Conference (SSTC) where I was giving a talk about rescuing software catastrophes. After my presentation, I was approached by a project officer from a nearby Air Force base. "You are addressing the wrong audience," he said. "You need to talk to the business executives, not the developers; that's where most software failures begin. The developers are just software samurais who are expected to accept impossible schedules dictated from above."

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Software Project Failures: Part III -- The Software SamuraiThu Dec 15 18:54:19 CST 2005