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Avoiding IT Disasters: Fallacies about enterprise systems and how you can rise above them Paperback – May 9 2018

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This book tells you the real reasons behind enterprise system failure that no one else will tell you. It shows how software is a strange land where your physical world common sense just doesn't apply. It reveals the common fallacies regarding enterprise software and shows why they can lead you to bad decisions. It defines NLP (Non Locality and Proportionality) and shows hows this simple software property combines with software entropy (disorder) to create a toxic brew that can destroy your enterprise system. Avoiding IT Disasters gives you information that is essential for you to understand if you want your organization to avoid the ravages of enterprise system failure. It includes tips on how to deal with the claims of software salespeople and how to avoid bad systems that can cost so much and deliver so little. To run your business in the 21st century, you have to navigate through this strange land of enterprise software, and Dr. Gutteridge is uniquely qualified to be your guide. He has a rare combination of experience, that combines a background in theoretical computer science with decades of practical experience in a wide variety of software, including implementing many enterprise systems.

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240 pages
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May 9 2018
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12.7 x 1.4 x 20.32 cm
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1775357503
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978-1775357506
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Lance Gutteridge has a Ph.D. in computability theory and has been managing software projects for over 55 years. He has taught mathematics/computer science at several universities. He has written many enterprise systems, developed aerospace software, and designed computer languages.Recently he has been designing software to simplify enterprise system development, a problem that has fascinated him for decades.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thinking Works (May 9 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1775357503
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1775357506
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 245 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.4 x 20.32 cm

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Dr. Lance Gutteridge has a Ph.D. in computability theory from Simon Fraser University (1972). He has taught mathematics and computer science at York University, Simon Fraser University and University of British Columbia. He has worked extensively on enterprise computer systems having written many time-billing systems, account-ing systems, inventory systems, and a large variety of other enterprise applications.

He has worked in software in aerospace, languages, operating systems, engineering, and many other areas. This combined with Dr. Gutteridge’s theoretical background gives him a unique perspective on the problems of software development and enterprise system development in particular.

In 1998, he and his business partners sold Paradigm Development Corp. which wrote software for large software companies like Microsoft and Adobe. Since then he has written fiction books, taught Java programming internationally, and researched enterprise system development.

Having been frustrated for decades with the tools available for enterprise system development he decided to tackle the problem head on. In 2004 he founded Formever Inc. to develop software that allows business people to develop enterprise software. He has been working for the last 14 years as CTO of Formever to produce working software that accomplished this goal.

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LFromQuebec

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 25, 2022

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The website was all I really needed to get the point, but I already know the field. Easy introduction to the subject if starting out.

See also Martin Fowler LMAX and LMAX disruptor library on github.

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Good companion to The Mythical Man-Month

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 2, 2018

Although written with a non-technical, business person as the intended audience, this book sheds light that would be advisable for software development managers, directors and executives to also read.

For instance, just as *The Mythical Man-Month* (Fred Brooks, 1975, 1995) is cited and should be required reading, so too the concept of non-locality and proportionality (yet another NLP) is a concise way of grasping core problems of our industry prevalent to this day.

Overall, it's a well-written book for a non-technical audience, such as decision-makers in business that must pick software vendors, select technical consultants or find providers of managed software services.

The author provides enough detail, sufficient granularity and appropriate use of analogy/metaphor to illustrate his points without burdening the reader with too much information. There are just enough historical facts mentioned as breadcrumbs-- usually as footnotes-- that someone with 30 years industry experience like myself may corroborate enough of his anecdotes with similar points in our own history.

For a proper critique and keeping within scope of intended audience, there would only be nit-picks best relegated to coffee conversations. (For instance, there's a bit more to the "NoSQL" conversation, but this is only mentioned within a footnote. There's some debate over whether Yogi Berra originated the quoted line or not. Again-- it's just nit-picking.)

In my own conversations, I've noted enterprise software being challenged in part because "it's not a sexy job," as merely another way of conveying the author's point. For instance, the cool kids want to work for the tech giants or get paid the big bucks of Wall Street. Fortune 1000 companies (without the top 50 or so) may have an anomalous over-achiever but will otherwise be stuck with those unable/unwilling to relocate to one of the tech hubs such as Silicon Valley.

I for one, as a software developer, will cite this book in part as useful in explaining why the Rust programming language is what C++ should have been. (Hint: explicit control over a variable's "lifetime" goes a long way towards program correctness and reduces entropy as the author explains it. It also selects weaker programmers out of the gene pool. But I digress...)

For technical folks within arm's reach of software engineering, you can probably read the first chapter and then skip to Chapter 6 on p53.

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Absolutely fascinating and insightful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 13, 2019

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Concise and extremely well written. An absolutely fascinating and insightful high level view on the IT industry for both IT professionals and business owners. I look forward to more works from the author.

Worthington

Very valuable information

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 28, 2018

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So many books on IT are written from the viewpoint of someone who wants to display their superior knowledge of the subject. This book on the other hand is written from the viewpoint of someone who knows what they know and wants to impart it to you in the most efficient way possible, which includes being sure to keep specialty language to a minimum and also explaining things in easy to understand terms.Just the section on a 15 minute Executive overview was worth the price of the book. Thanks for writing this Lance. I'm really enjoying it.

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Robert Houben

Excellent, elegant diagnosis of the problems plaguing Enterprise software

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 26, 2018

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Dr. Lance really hits the nail on the head with this book! I would strongly recommend it to anyone who is struggling with an ailing enterprise system, or considering an upgrade of an existing one. Be prepared to have some of your common conceptions, and those of your colleagues, challenged!

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Gonzalo Fernandez

Read this because I bet you have bad software implementation practices... and results

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