Important that software fails?

We found the PC a great tool to assist in programing work for a Foundry operation. We should have stopper there, as once we got on top of this we started looking for more and more uses for this tool in a manufacturing.

We no longer produce engineering drawings manually, we use cad, which at first glance seems more productive, but more drawings are produced for a project than we ever did manually.

The problem is computers enable us to do much more and add more complexity to a project than was possible with manual methods. As a result I have found a large part of this productivty is negated by the tendency to over do things going passed the point of what is actually needed to accomplish a task. Often when I look back over my working life we seem to need to put in more effort than ever before inspite of our "productivity enhancing" technology.

If I may summarize?

Just because you [u]can[/u] do something doesn't mean you should.

Unfortunately, very few people have the courage to do nothing.

Now I see the numbers that prove it. Thank you!

J.Ja

Though that doesn't mean I really want to be part of a major software project that fails. :D

It does explain why companies keep investing in projects that fail though.

and a remarkably insightful testament to the power of burocracy to suck the life out of our all too brief existence.

Thanks for that.