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I have discovered a fatal disease that appears to afflict some organizations that try to practice risk management. This malady is an odd form of myopia. Projects infected with it can only see small problems. Large problems looming directly ahead, problems that would be in the center of any healthy project's field of vision, go completely unseen by the victims of this disease.

I have discovered a fatal disease that appears to afflict some organizations that try to practice risk management. This malady is an odd form of myopia. Projects infected with it can only see small problems. Large problems looming directly ahead, problems that would be in the center of any healthy project's field of vision, go completely unseen by the victims of this disease.

Following the invention of the automobile, US car manufacturers dominated the world market for half a century before overseas suppliers challenged their leading position. Today, the majority of software tools and applications originate in the US. The software industry has now reached the half-century mark. Will history repeat itself with offshore developers overtaking this hot market? There are signs that this is a distinct possibility.


Ever since the term computer virus was invented, people have been plumbing the biological world for analogies and ideas to help prevent the spread and seriousness of "human-generated computer viruses." (I put all that in quotes to note that there is nothing necessarily "natural" in computer viruses, they're all manmade and evolve only from a human understanding point of view.