1996-01-10 - Re: Why Companies are Poor at Finding Bugs

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From: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
To: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
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Raw Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 22:21:52 +0800

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From: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 22:21:52 +0800
To: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Subject: Re: Why Companies are Poor at Finding Bugs
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Alan Olsen writes:
 > >Until a crisis happens, then they are lambasted for not having
 > >spoken up more loudly and more forcefully.
 > 
 > I have seen this before in a number of companies...  

Anyone more interested in these sorts of organizational behavior
things should read Peter Senge's "The Fifth Discipline".




(Either that or "Dilbert".)

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| Nobody's going to listen to you if you just | Mike McNally (m5@tivoli.com) |
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