The Fifth Column---The Computer that was Too Well Sold: A Toccata in Four Movements

Gene Woolsey
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Gene Woolsey: Colorado School of Mines

Interfaces, 1980, vol. 10, issue 5, 7-10

Abstract: An essay about unexpected difficulties in upgrading software for a new model of mainframe computer manufactured by a large company, as well as logistic and business consequences of this transition process.

Keywords: computers:; project; management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1980
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