Massive Code Failures
uExamples where failure to follow best practices caused companies
to lose hundreds of millions of dollars:
Ø1. Code ran so slowly that it made the system unusable.
It would have taken 26.5 years for a month-end routine to run.
Ø2. Code was so difficult to modify that changing it
took 3.5 months just to add a single attribute to one
table.
Ø3. The system included so many complex rules that, even
after years of development, it never worked.
Ø4. Data
validation rules – after 18 months, 6 organizations tried, only one succeeded.
uAll of these failures were due to the way in which the software
and its underlying code were designed and constructed.
