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There is something similar, at least metaphorically, between computer system crashes and hangs and software project failures. Software projects deliver software that crashes and these software failures via negative feedback loop either slow projects down or simply lead to their abandonment. The structure of a software development team resembles that of a running application (called a process) with team members acting in parallel (threads) and the structure of operating system with multiple running processes competing for resources resembles a software company struggling to stay alive. When projects fail there is something left as artifacts available for study and the same is true for crashed processes or operating systems leaving crash memory dumps behind for postmortem analysis.  

In some future posts I’m going to map Crash Dump Analysis patterns to Project Failure Analysis patterns and see what comes out of this attempt.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ ManagementBits.com -

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