The following links contain studies, data, opinion and other useful information related to the failure of projects. I will add to the list over time, so please check back occasionally.
Cautionary tales of some of the world’s most significant computer bugs (Wikipedia links)
- List of world’s most significant computer bugs
- The story of how a software bug nearly caused World War III
- The Ariane 5 story – the world’s most costly software bug
- The Therac-25 disaster
- The Pentium floating point divide debacle
Other significant stories
- The Babbage difference machine (a very early technology project that encountered schedule and budget troubles)
- The Iridium satellite phone venture (failure of an innovative business – and its subsequent comeback)
- Possible role of technology in the 2008 economic crisis
Methodologies often used in technology projects (Wikipedia and other links of interest)
- List of development methodologies and philosophies
- Agile development
- Extreme Programming (XP)
- OpenUp – a development methodology based on the Eclipse framework (well worth reading)
- OpenUp Basic – a light version of OpenUp
- Rapid Application Development (RAD)
- Rational Unified Process (RUP) – Now an IBM methodology
- Scrum
- Spiral model of software development
- Test driven development
- Waterfall model