Since 1960, what are the top 10 software failures that you believe would make good case study course discussions?

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Daniel Doss Popular answer

Hi Markus,

Thank you!

--Adrian

Markus Lienkamp

My favorite one are mixed units (SI and American ones e.g.)

The other rule is: It is a working software if the number of sign mistakes is even.

Daniel Doss

Sajid Shah

Hi Daniel,

The classical IS failure case studies, I remember, are of NIKE in 2000 where they invested $400million and the system was a huge loss. Other major failures are of SAP both in HP (Hewlett Packard) in 2004 & Bankruptcy of FoxMeyer drugs in 1996.

Regards,

Sajid

Hi Sajid,

Martin Florian Börner

The Parity multi-signature wallet bug that allowed eth worth 300 mil. $ to be locked forever on the ethereum blockchain.

https://blog.comae.io/the-280m-ethereums-bug-f28e5de43513

https://github.com/paritytech/parity/issues/6995#issuecomment-342409816

https://medium.com/cybermiles/i-accidentally-killed-it-and-evaporated-300-million-6b975dc1f76b