One Expert Pegs Yearly Cost of IT Failure At $6.2 Trillion 242
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from the but-what's-the-cost-of-preventing-it? dept.
blognoggle writes "Roger Sessions, a noted author and expert on complexity, developed a model for calculating the total global cost of IT failure. Roger describes his approach in a white paper titled The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity. He concludes that IT failure costs the global economy a staggering $6.2 trillion per year."
Re:Asleep at the Switch (Score:3, Informative)
This article is self promotion bate. (Score:4, Informative)
I've seen so many of these sorts of articles lately on /.
It's really devaluing /.
It would be nice to have some mod facility to get these nuked. It's disappointing that such a long running resource like /. is now being infected with self promotion. One of the best self promotion FAILS was the one about face book switching to some C++ frame work from php in order to save 10s of thousands of servers resources. I'm still laughing about that one.
Re:Not the same thing (Score:3, Informative)
:) That's the problem with many of the projects I've seen: No time for requirements gathering, no time for testing, and deployment should take less than a day. So no matter how well you design and execute your design - you end up with last minute poorly thought out enhancements and any testing done happening from a developers standpoint instead of an end user's.