How to Fail at Software Development

This book takes a humorous approach to the description of some serious things that seems to be repeating themseves forever. Every story told and situation described in this book is true, but they do get a bit silly when you take a close look. From the initial design documents that don't make sense right on through the escape (sometimes called release) process, this book explains the things that are done over and over again to cause projects to go belly up.

The author draws from his own experience and from the experience of others. He examines some interesting disasters and figures out what went wrong and what caused the problems.