The Year 2000 Software Crisis: Challenge of the Century Yourdon Press computing series: Amazon.co.uk: William M. Ulrich, Ian S. Hayes: Books

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65566-2 Don't just resolve the Year 2000 software crisis: Leverage it for competitive advantage! By now, many IT organizations have realized that their business-critical applications contain code that will fail on January 1, 2000. But exactly how serious is your organization's problem-and what's the best way to resolve it? In The Year 2000 Software Crisis: Challenge of the Century, two leading IT consultants deliver a comprehensive blueprint for evaluating and responding to the Year 2000 crisis in your company. While there's no silver bullet, you'll learn the basic building blocks and guiding principles that apply to all Year 2000 initiatives. With unprecedented detail, the authors show how to: *Select the best migration approach and methodology. *Coordinate with customers, suppliers and other external stakeholders. *Budget and manage Year 2000 projects. *Implement, deploy and validate the solutions you choose. *Choose and acquire the appropriate tools. *Evaluate outside services-and write better RFPs for obtaining them.Most important, you'll learn how a Year 2000 project can serve as a catalyst for strategic change-and how to leverage the knowledge you gain for competitive advantage throughout your organization. The Year 2000 Software Crisis also contains coverage targeted at smaller IT organizations, as well as an extensive list of tool vendors, consulting firms and conversion companies, sample forms, a glossary, and a meta-model for project tracking deliverables. Whether you're an IT manager, software vendor, or senior business manager, it's time to move full-speed ahead on resolving your Year 2000 crisis. With this book, you'll get the job done right.

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Don't just resolve the Year 2000 software crisis: Leverage it for competitive advantage!

By now, many IT organizations have realized that their business-critical applications contain code that will fail on January 1, 2000. But exactly how serious is your organization's problem—and what's the best way to resolve it?

In The Year 2000 Software Crisis: Challenge of the Century, two leading IT consultants deliver a comprehensive blueprint for evaluating and responding to the Year 2000 crisis in your company. While there's no silver bullet, you'll learn the basic building blocks and guiding principles that apply to all Year 2000 initiatives. With unprecedented detail, the authors show how to:

Select the best migration approach and methodology.
Coordinate with customers, suppliers and other external stakeholders.
Budget and manage Year 2000 projects.
Implement, deploy and validate the solutions you choose.
Choose and acquire the appropriate tools.
Evaluate outside services—and write better RFPs for obtaining them.

Most important, you'll learn how a Year 2000 project can serve as a catalyst for strategic change—and how to leverage the knowledge you gain for competitive advantage throughout your organization.

The Year 2000 Software Crisis also contains coverage targeted at smaller IT organizations, as well as an extensive list of tool vendors, consulting firms and conversion companies, sample forms, a glossary, and a meta-model for project tracking deliverables.

Whether you're an IT manager, software vendor, or senior business manager, it's time to move full-speed ahead on resolving your Year 2000 crisis. With this book, you'll get the job done right.

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Useful, but You can't be sure what to believe. 27 April 1999

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There is a lot of useful information in the book, but you can't be sure what to believe and what is something that the authors have just made up. For instance, there are only 3 rules that govern the Leap Year, admittedly, sometime in the future, a fourth rule will have to be added, but it will not be as indicated. If anything it would be "Unless the year is divisible by 3600" Not is 3600. Also, the reader will notice that there is not one reference in the book to back any of the authors claims.

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The single best book on Year 2000 for IT professionals 16 Feb 1999

As a consultant in this field, I've read a lot of Year 2000 books, but this is the book that started it all. More IT organizations around the world use its practical information as a basis for their projects than any other source. The book came out in 1997, so new material has appeared since, but the methods remain true. The authors have another equally good book to add a non-IT prospective.

The best book I've found for teaching about the Y2k problem 5 Dec 1998

This informative book was both helpful and relevant without being to vebose. The information was presented in a straightforward and captivating manner, and it really fit my needs.