Coding Slave takes place in the world of corporate Information Technology (IT). Its six main characters come together around the implementation of an ERP at a large Midewestern conglomerate. ("ERP" is an acronym for "Enterprise Resource Package," a very large, very expensive type of software that is made to run giant businesses, such as General Motors, ADM, etc.)
Through this situation and its characters, Coding Slave describes in a humorous — yet painful — manner the problems, dynamics and absurdities of the present-day Information Technology Industry.
The IT industry is rife with fear about off-shore outsourcing and inefficiency and failures of major software systems. People are highly distrustful of the corporate environment and of large scale software development initiatives. Coding Slave describes the folly and fear within corporate IT in lurid — almost nauseating — detail.
The book is based on the actual experience of the author’s fifteen years in the software development industry. There is something in this book that every software developer in the world will identify with, and other things that will fascinate anyone who has always wondered what goes on in the minds of those software geniuses who are taking over the world.
