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The most important Year 2000 issue for businesses and individuals alike concerns whether or not the Year 2000 embedded systems remediation efforts of the core infrastructure services that they depend upon are successful. That is, what do you reliably know about the remediation

PICTURE THIS: SCENARIO-DRIVEN CONTINGENCY PLANNING FOR THE YEAR 2000 PROBLEM by Howard Rubin

Consider two situations at wildly different ends of the Year 2000 solution spectrum.

CRAMMING FOR THE YEAR 2000 TEST by Michael Mah "Cramming for the Year 2000 Test," (c) 1998 by QSM Associates. All rights reserved.

Cramming.

SPECIAL CHALLENGES IN YEAR 2000 PROJECT MANAGEMENT by Paul Neuhardt

Abhorred monster! Fiend that thou art! The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes. Wretched devil!

Traditional software developers often dismiss Y2000 as a simple problem, arguing that it involves nothing more than a large number of intellectually trivial code-fixing problems. Y2000 projects don't require any systems design or requirements-definition activity, right? Yes, there is some testing to be done, the software developers acknowledge, but even that should be simple because all of the test data is concerned with the same date-related issue.

Y2000 IS MORE THAN A CODING PROBLEM 30 September 1998 by Ed Yourdon

Traditional software developers often dismiss Y2000 as a simple problem, arguing that it involves nothing more than a large number of intellectually trivial code-f

ARE Y2000 PROJECTS EASIER THAN "NORMAL" PROJECTS? 23 September 1998 by Ed Yourdon

A respected colleague who specializes in CASE tools and object- oriented methodologies wrote to me a few days ago, suggesting that a comparison between large