There’s a new book to add to my collection of books on IT failure: “Why New Systems Fail,” by independent software consultant Phil Simon. The book takes an in-the-trenches approach to identifying ways ...

Nobody goes into business to fail -- but perhaps they should. Both scholarly research and practical experience indicate that failing can often provide an entrepreneur with an invaluable opportunity to ...

Failure is a dilemma. Even if your corporate culture is intolerant of failure, leaders know that the result will not be a failure-free company. It will be a culture that hides failures and cannot ...

To thrive in today’s economy you need to fail fast and fail often. Or do you? Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School’s resident expert on failure, says this mantra is too blunt. You need to learn to ...

Engineers developed a technique to quickly identify a range of potential failures in a system before they are deployed in the real world. From vehicle collision avoidance to airline scheduling systems ...

Students in Vincent St-Amour’s new Responsible Software Engineering course are analyzing case studies of software failures and exploring tools and techniques to prevent similar disasters Software ...