Why New Systems Fail by Phil Simon (Read via Physical Book)

This is a great IT Book. It focuses on large enterprise projects and goes into why they epically fail. Simon give great case examples from his direct personal experience how the projects did not live up to their potential.

What I learned most about this book, is really knowing what you have, what you want, what you are buying, and who is deploying it. For example… If you are moving to a new billing system for example. You have to spend the time cleaning up the old one first and prepping it for transition before moving. The numbers in this book are sobering, more than half fail, most don’t live up to potential.

Even more, I would recommend AT&T pick up a copy of this book. It took me 12 hours to order a new iPhone today.

A must read for anyone in IT, especially above the line people (Wiki).

8/10