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Summary: A must read for all people in the software industry
Review: Regardless of the title, this book is actually about what you can do to become a world-class organization. To quote a line from the book, "if your doing it right, quality is free." This is the book that tells you how to "do it right".
Get it, read it, implement it.
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Summary: This book belongs in Humor
Review: This book claims that nearly all American Programmers would be standing in unemployment lines in 1999. Please note that everything that Yourdon does is *satire* - not real! When you realize the angle he aproaches life with, you understand the satire of this book, as well as his Y2K doomsday predictions. Better hurry, this level of satire seems like a tough one to ride!
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Summary: This book belongs in Humor
Review: This book claims that nearly all American Programmers would be standing in unemployment lines in 1999. Please note that everything that Yourdon does is *satire* - not real! When you realize the angle he aproaches life with, you understand the satire of this book, as well as his Y2K doomsday predictions. Better hurry, this level of satire seems like a tough one to ride!
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Summary: Bad content, worse editing
Review: This book is virtually unreadable. While reading along, you may get the beginning of one sentence, and the end of another. Don't waste your money on this book.
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Summary: I wonder how the 1998/99 reviewers feel now?
Review: This book served as a wake-up call for me in '93. Throughout the remainder of the 90's and on, I've made sure to keep my skills up to date and marketable. I've positioned myself with many technologies instead of specializing in few, and I've acquired the habit of always learning something new, even when it meant substantial investment of my own money into my only product -- me. Essentially, I became what became what is now known as a Guerilla Programmer. Throughout the years I have been amused at the childish insults and criticizms that many have thrown at Mr. Yourdon for his predictions in this book, but never more than now. It's 2003, companies are falling over each other to "offshore" work, and IT types are literally a dime a dozen. At this point if someone tries to claim they don't know there are problems in the IT industry, they're either lying or suffering from a massive case of denial. This book is *still* worth your time. I'll conceed that some of the technology in the book is dated (e.g. CASE), but the base concepts are not. People who cannot read this book critically and find some way to adapt the concepts to their own careers, are either not very open minded, or probably not very creative. Either way, I don't imagine the software they create is anything to e-mail home about. Find some way to get this book and read it! If for no other reason than to compare what Mr. Yourdon predicted with what's really happened. He may have been a few years off in his timeline, but the predictions were accurate. I doubt that you will be honestly able to say that you didn't get at least one thing to think about for your money. And while you're reading it, look at your own career. Are you in danger of having your project/department/company moved offshore? If so, it's time that you started finding ways to nuke-proof yourself.
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Summary: Great book but a little scary
Review: This is a wonderful and interesting book. Its a little scary with many cries of the sky is falling but seeing the current cut down in IT staffing levels and the number of projects being exported overseas I don't think that Yourdon was far off.
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Summary: Does this Book Belong in the Humor Section?
Review: This review is more a review of a review than a review of the book which is accurate in predicting the future but enchanted with vacous methodlogies and associated retooling. (The IT graveyard is littered with these wonderful "new" methodolgies. Speaking of which, when did methodolgy enter our lexicon. Ugh!) I do not personally know the reviewer, Sam from NC, USA but I know he is arrogant and in for a breataking fall. My guess is he is very young. His type, and the industry is rife with them, is a major problem. I know, he is superman and the rest of us our just naysayers but please clean up your own messes.
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