The period between the 1970's and 1980's was a time of great advancement in computer hardware technology which took an industry still in it's infancy, to a level of much sophistication and which ultimately revelutionised the information storage and processing needs of every other industry and that of the entire world. However, it was also during this period when the shortcomings of implementing such technology became apparent. A significant number of development projects failed which …showed first 75 words of 1623 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1623 total…error to happen and fix it, then learn from it for making better developments for future information systems. Bibliography: 1. Fail-safe Advice, Software Magazine, George Black, 3/93 2. All fall down, The Economist, Anonymous, 20/3/93 3. DME is DBA(Dead Before Arrival), Data Communications, Robin Layland, 2/94 4. There's No Excuse for Failure, Canadian Manager, Selim EI Raheb, 9/92 5. Laboratory Systems failure: The enemy may be us, Computers in Healthcare, Stanley J. Geyer, M.D., 9/93 6. Australian Standard Software quality management system, Standards Australia