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3b Hurricane Katrina: Total System Failure17 September 5th, 2005 by 5 Hans 12 Bjordahl :: 7 9 37 10 Comments |
Hurricane Katrina was not one disaster. It was two disasters:
1) A Category 4 hurricane devastating large portions of three states, including a major American city.
2) The federal government’s total system failure in addressing a catastrophe that had been foreseen as a near-certainty for days, and as a possibility for decades.
And make no mistake: The second disaster killed many, many Americans who managed to survive the first. Perhaps thousands of Americans.
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Bug Bash is a comic strip written and illustrated by Hans Bjordahl. Bug Bash is a comic strip about technology: managing technology, the business of technology. It's about project management and managing projects through the dull world of Rational Rose, use cases, and requirements. Functional requirements, user requirement, functional specifications, design specifications, call it what you want but it's still the bane of project managers. And when you're done with that, you can think about all the fun that comes with timelines, scheduling, estimates (PERT estimation anyone?) and resourcing until Gantt charts are coming out of your ears. Let's not forget the risk management in the software engineering life cycle. Maintaining the project is just as much fun, managing what was initially set out in requirements and trying to keep feature creep / scope creep in check with change management. If any of these words send nightmares to you, the project manager, then this site probably rings true with you. (Who Links Here?)