Tuesday, March 3, 2015

In the article by J. Greene & A. Stellman on “Why Projects Fail”, they point out that besides project failure due to aborted or canceled projects, there are other, less obvious kinds of failure:
  1. The project costs a lot more than it should. 
  2. It takes a lot longer than anyone expected. 
  3. The product doesn’t do what it was supposed to. 
  4. Nobody is happy about it. 
After you read this entertaining article, what is your experience with, or that you read about, software failures or products that come to market that “nobody is happy about.”
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  1. UnknownMarch 6, 2015 at 10:55 AM

    I have recently encountered a software/ product failure. I have an iPhone 5s and a few months ago their was a major update for it. I immediately downloaded the update almost instinctively without thinking about the possible consequences of my actions.

    Upon completing the download, I almost immediately noticed many problems. Firstly, the download took up many gigs of storage. To me a phone update should not be utilizing such a massive amount of storage space. I forget the exact amount that it used, but it was something along the lines of 7 gigs. That is basically half the storage space on my phone and it blows my mind how one update could possibly require so much storage space. As a consequence of my phone wasting so much storage space, it now operates slower, the battery doesn't last as long, and applications frequently crash while in use. Another issue I have had since the update is that my phones auto-correct capitalizes random words for me such as DWIGHT, WANNA, and ASHLEY. The final issue this update causes is when I have a text open and flip my phone from the normal vertical position to the horizontal position, my text disappears rather than rotating 90 degrees like it should.

    I have spend months trying to figure out a way to undo this update, but have found no possible solutions without compromising the integrity of the phone. Why is their no undo update option on the phone??? Why are we not able to know the outcome of an update without being forced to download it without the possibility to delete is should we not like it? Its my phone, yet I have no choice but to keep the settings that Apple wants me to have. In this day and age, their should be a better option. This is why I think that Apple's recent iPhone update is a good example of a software/ product failure.

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